Exploring harmony
Harmony Part 3 – progress report & questions, for my classmates and mentor.
I started by exploring and researching ideas on harmony, in social/political structures and in the arts. Many oppositions, eg harmony, order, symmetry, stasis, oppression vs chaos, discord, conflict, mess.
Felt I wanted to seek harmony which was less static…ideas like interplay, interconnection, reciprocity [ eg bees, flowers, pollination, honey], osmosis,[water molecules spontaneously seeking balance] , rhthymic cycles [ eg tides, seasons], symbiosis – [eg lichens]…occurring in Nature, in the Cosmos and in human relationships.
Decided to look at humans and gardening, as a fusion/interplay/struggle between Nature and human ideas of beauty/utility.
So far I have interviewed several friends where their garden is important to them.
Q 1 have I asked them the best Q, ? Are there others you’d suggest?
[ See next posting for my Q ]
Q Im not sure how to record this visually – photos?
Q I think this is ethnography. But is it art?