I am so enjoying my time in the gallery with the Surface Tension exhibition. It has been a joyous affirmation of so much that I believe in. The lovely conversations that I have had with visitors to the gallery have been so interesting. I shall never forget the lovely gentleman who dropped in on Friday, stayed chatting for about 40 minutes about the work and the ideas behind it and then, just as he was leaving, he suddenly said
‘Oh yes, I meant to ask you, how do we solve global warming?‘
An hour later we had not solved that particular issue but we had thrashed some ideas around and come up with a great idea of carbon rationing for all. Why is that not a thing?
Someone has leant me Robin Wall Kimmerer’s book Gathering Moss to read during the exhibition. It is a beautiful read; poetic; poignant and thought provoking at every turn of the page. It has brought home to me just how utterly dependent we all are on the little things – the things that we take for granted and which were the jumping off point for the topic explored in this exhibition – the mosses of Blacknest Fields, Binsted, Hampshire which are being rewilded by volunteers and from where all the mossy images used in this exhibition came from.
Its the little things which support everything else.
Bridget Macklin 