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Early morning beauty (my first 1 minute movie)

12/5/2019

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This week I am going to produce a movie called 'A Week in the Life of my Garden'. It will be my contribution to the BBC's annual Get Creative Festival which encourages people to do something they feel is creative and to share what they have done. I will be sharing my movie with the members of the Creative Academic and #creativeHE facebook group as part of our own Lets Get Creative Festival and hope that it encourages others to make their own garden movies. I will also share it in the Wildlife Gardening Facebook group 

I didn't know how I was going to make the movie at the start or what I would make the movie about but I was confident that my garden would inspire me. On the first day of discussion in the #creativeHE someone talked about the 1" drawings they make everyday and this gave me the idea of a 1minute movie each day. So that solved theproblem of how I would make my movie and this is the first of my 1 minute movies.

I woke up this morning and the sun was streaming through the bedroom window. It propelled me out of bed and into the garden with my camera and I took these stunning early morning photos that I turned into a 1 minute movie using windows moviemaker. I knew that these were photos I could only take at this particular moment in this particular space. What a wonderful start to the day and to my 'Week in the Life of My Garden' movie.
I used one of the photos to create a dreamscope (digital) painting. I find it amazing that even a digitally composed painting can be aesthetically pleasing and transform a scene to bring out fresh interest and beauty that engages us emotionally.
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    PATHWAYS DIARY
    In March 2023 I began an experiential inquiry called Pathways to a Sustainable Future and many of my posts between March-September were written for this project.
    ​Diary Starts Here

    Garden Notes
    My garden is much more than a garden. Its playground, a studio for my artistic efforts, a natural laboratory for experiments and learning and a place for contemplation. It keeps me busy and gives me the exercise I need to keep fit, although it does damage me from time to time. But more than anything else it gives me pleasure, happiness and a sense of belonging and of doing something useful and worthwhile when I am immersed in it. It enables me to express myself creatively and draws my attention to the beauty and ecology of life. In this blog  I am telling the story of my garden and my involvement and experiences in it through my writing and the photos, movies, music, paintings and other artefacts - it inspires me to create. I have become more conscious of the UNs Sustainable Development Goals and our important role in enabling their achievement my experiments and projects in the natural world show how I respect and try to understand nature and try to enable life to flourish. I know that one day I will not be the custodian of this beautiful landscape we call our home. I must make the most of it now and preserve its presence in my memory knowing that it will carry on long after I am gone and that someone else will care for it and call it their home.
    In March 2022 I joined a group of environmental activists in my village and so I have decided to expand my blog to take in the natural world around me.  

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