Cacophony

Sometimes i like to play jazz through pictures. This is my cacophony. i combined, shuffled, recombined and repurposed pictures from different stories to make a new one. It is a performance of tiny noises, tiny stories, that together make a larger noise. At once, it is a work in progress and a finished whole. It reflects my process of getting to know creatures on meandering, bush-bashing and crawling walks. How do they talk? And how do i talk to them?

The idea of talking leaves was taken from David Abram’s book The Spell of the Sensuous. He discusses the possibility of ‘reading’ a landscape and letting it speak to you through sensory attention — like reading a book. This is exactly what many indigenous and oral traditions do, and some of these peoples have referred to books as talking leaves.