Heartbroken-bacchus - I Miss Those Good Old Boys

are you being led by your spirit or your wound?

“god, grant me the serenity to accept the things i cannot change, courage me to change the things i can, and wisdom to know the difference”

Liz Toohey-Wiese, 2024.

"A sign installed in the largest wildfire burn I’ve ever seen, along the BC/YK border. Borrowing the aesthetics of BC Recreation Site signs, once again pointing to the overlaps of outdoor recreation, resource extraction, and the consequences of the climate crisis. Most recreation sites in BC exist along previously built logging and mining roads.

“Forced into a great and difficult transformation” was a line I heard in a lecture on Buddhist philosophy I was listening to on my drive up north. But it became another mantra I thought about while living in a place that’s been utterly transformed by resource extraction over the past century, and as I thought about the burnt landscapes I drove through."

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shop fronts by Emmanuel Smague

Stane Jagodič - Contemporary Golgotha (assemblage), 1999