“There is no earth capable of containing modernisation’s ideal of progress, emancipation and development: All forms of belonging are undergoing metamorphosis - belonging to this globe, to the world, to the provinces, to particular plots of ground, to the world market or lands or traditions. How can we not feel inwardly undone by the anxiety of not knowing how to repond? How can the feeling of being protected be provided without an immediate return to identity and defense of borders?
By two complementary movements that modernisation made contradictory - attaching oneself to the soil on the one hand and becoming attached to the world on the other"
- Bruno Latour - Down to Earth, Politics in the New Climatic Regime

Sometimes things - all the things - things that have existed as little disperate dots across a page, or gnats in a storm - come together temporarily in some kind of form that makes sense. And so it has with two collective projects I’m involved with, Utopias Bach - revolution in miniature, and Crone Cast, both of whom are products of lockdown, but which are thriving and finding relevance in the uncertain times that have emerged through the COVID portal.

Both these projects were recently selected by Marc Rees, as part of his curation of 12 artists for Celfyddydau Rhyngwladol Cymru: Wales Arts International as a response to COP 26:

“Pethau Bychain | Small Things: Doing the small things can make a difference in our communities across Wales, to our planet, and our own wellbeing. #PethauBychain is the campaign to amplify the wellbeing messages of Wales' cultural sector on a global stage.”

Click on the images below to read more and see the videos we made for their ‘showcase’.

”Either we deny the existence of the problem, or else we look for a place to land”