UNDULATIONS: Some contrastive landscapes each moment in some parts of the world ocean tides rise as moonbeams flutter on whitecaps and sea anemone with velvet tendrils feed in pristine coral reefs . . . each moment in other corners of the globe chainsaws transform forests into industrial wood chips while bulldozers bury earth as smoke belches from exhaust pipes & junk food passes from plastic wrappers to rotting intestines . . . . . . ugghhh . . . Ellesha: Our world is deeply out-of-sync with nature. Andrei: Yeah, this reminds me ah zhings I'd rather not zhink ahh. Elijah: Precisely! Doesn't eco-art function as a reminder? We need a social conscience . . . Philyra: (laughing sarcastically) Ha! Too many people have Disneyfied ideas about what art should be: they only want stuff that's sweet & cuddly. Sometimes we need reminders that the world is not always that way. Andrei: Maybe it's zhe other way around: I see so much crap in everyday life zhat sometimes I want sumdin' sweet & cuddly. I think of art as countermeasure against global insanity. Ellesha: Art has the potential to change the way we view the world. In our culture, there's generally not enough art. How many people "live art" each moment? Jules: (raising his eyebrows) Huh? I'm afraid global insanity will continue despite art. ===================================================================================== from _Let the waters be my witness: Messages about our watery world_ by T Newfields SUMMARY: A conversation, poem, and image about environmental contrasts, hyperreality, & sanity KEYWORDS: green poetry, environmental contrasts, eco-poetry, global issues, Begun: 1995 in Shizuoka, Japan / Finished: 2017 in Xīn-Yokohama, Japan Creative Commons License: Attribution. {{CC-BY-4.0}} Granted by T Newfields [Nitta Hirou / Huáng Yuèwǔ] < LAST http://www.tnewfields.info/BlueEarth/coast.htm TOC http://www.tnewfields.info/BlueEarth/index.html NEXT > http://www.tnewfields.info/BlueEarth/s.htm TRANSLATIONS: DEUTSCH: http://www.tnewfields.info/de/wellen.htm ESPAÑOL: http://www.tnewfields.info/es/ondul.htm FRANÇAIS: http://www.tnewfields.info/fr/ondul.htm NIHONGO: http://www.tnewfields.info/jp/hado.htm