We are here to witness the creation and abet it. We
are here to notice each thing so each thing gets
noticed. Together we notice not only each mountain shadow and each stone on the
beach but, especially, we notice the beautiful faces and complex natures of
each other.
We are here to bring to consciousness the beauty
and power that are around us and to praise the people who are here with us. We
witness our generation and our times. We watch the weather. Otherwise, creation
would be playing to an empty house.
According to the second law of thermodynamics,
things fall apart. Structures disintegrate.
Buckminster Fuller hinted at a reason we are here:
By creating things, by thinking up new combinations, we counteract this flow of
entropy. We make new structures, new wholeness, so the universe comes out even.
A shepherd on a hilltop who looks at a mess of
stars and thinks, ‘There’s a hunter, a plow, a fish,’ is making mental
connections that have as much real force in the universe as the very fires in
those stars themselves.
~ Annie Dillard
Witness. Yes, we can do that for one another.
These paper structures, created with rusted and water colored papers,
evolved from the need to create. Of course they evolved. For instance, we worked surrounded by
long pine needles so they became the center of a flower.
In a tree, on some rusty springs, in the brush, amongst the
dried flowers from summer we set up the paper flowers and took photographs.
My niece and I walked around and found several
different appealing placements.
These are the new structures, the wholeness we contribute to
the universe. And I have returned home with boxes of pine cones, pine needles and dried summer flowers.
