Pushing Rocks
The Law and Ecocide
The way laws get changed is case by case. My own legal theory for The Blued Trees Symphony was based on a re-examination of the definition of ownership. Polly Higgins and I both established precedents not in case law but in mock trials, which also have validity.
Are Fascism and Conspiracy Theories Symptoms of Climate Change?
It has been years since I posted on my blog, the consequence of focusing narrowly on transposing my dissertation, “Trigger Point Theory as Aesthetic Activism,” into my forthcoming book, “Divining Chaos; The Autobiography of an Idea” coming out next summer, and completing the anthology “Ecoart in Action,”…
Links to published material on The Blued Trees Symphony
Links to audio podcasts and interviews about Aviva Rahmani’s project The Blued Trees Symphony.
Previews of Print Portfolios Now Available for Collectors
"I counted twenty-six different species of native grasses from alongside my dirt driveway around my birthday last month. I gathered them to make a palette. First, I created a soft ground monoprint, painting in with a brush a few shadows of the grasses that were placed in the ground”….
Getting up to speed with "The Blued Trees Symphony"
My biggest news has been the award of a fellowship with A Blade of Grass.
Archives of Early Work
When this post is complete, it will help people understand some of what has brought me to my present convictions about what my trigger point theory as aesthetic activism might be, and how it has become
The Blued Trees Symphony update
From April 2016 until late November 2016, I juggled dealing with surgery, chemotherapy and adjusting to long term medications, while moving The Blued Trees Symphony project forward.
How to make a coda
The Coda for The Blued Trees Symphony has been a work in progress since October 1, 2016. It follows the third movement of the Symphony, which was about the legal framework of the project, and began the first of the year, January 1, 2016. an excerpt from that movement was recently performed at White Box Gallery.
On Defiance, Uncertainty, and Empathy
Shortly after my last post on this site, I began chemotherapy for breast cancer. I am now halfway through that grueling treatment protocol. Meanwhile, Blued Trees was awarded a 2016 Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts in the category of Architecture/ Environmental Structures/ Design, and a wonderful new article was published in the Village Voice on Blued Trees , by Audrea Lim