What’s going on out on the land?
Camo As Flagging for Place-based Affinities
We all wear camouflage. We clothes ourselves in the fashions of our cultures, of our workplaces and of our identities. I clothe myself in the colours of the Cedar forest where I work and wander, or the dolostone outcroppings where I look for tracks. I am not only wearing the colours, but often the images of Oak leaves, old bark, twigs and grasses. I wear the deep layered images of the land as ceremony and as camouflage.
Emergent Kithship
I have written before about how knowing the land creates understanding of relationships. I have written a lot about it. That’s pretty much what this whole project is all about. But I want to look a little more at how that sense of relationship happens, and what are the triggers which bring it up for us?