BLOG: Climate Crescendo

Environmental sound artist Cheryl Beer writes about her new commission for the Cultura Inglesa Festival in Brazil

CLIMATE CRESCENDO - Behind the Scenes

It is mid-August. I am working on a new Commission for the Cultura Inglesa Festival in Brazil, in partnership with Unlimited. The work will be screened as a digital micro in October as part of an exhibition with the theme of Environmental Responsibility. On this page, I share with you the considerations and detail embedded within the piece.

It began for me on a walk around the lanes at a cottage in West Wales, where I am staying with friends. I happened upon a tree that had fallen in the storms earlier this year, notably Storm Éowyn. It was such a shocking sight, that I couldn't stop thinking about the tree and felt compelled to go back and revisit, to sit with the tree in silence, to reassure it, to learn. Nature had already begun to reclaim the carcass with grass, foxgloves and an array of wild flowers. The leaves were still green, moss, flourishing. This devastating uprooting had not stopped the tree from being a living being.

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