{"id":4452,"date":"2024-08-02T18:07:43","date_gmt":"2024-08-02T18:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=4452"},"modified":"2025-02-12T11:43:02","modified_gmt":"2025-02-12T11:43:02","slug":"carlow-timescape-inspires-dubliners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/carlow-timescape-inspires-dubliners\/","title":{"rendered":"Feast Upon The Earth Engages Everyone in Choosing Our Future"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Summer Inspiration At DLR Lexicon, Dublin<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The inspirational timescape Feast Upon The Earth<\/em> has moved from Tullow to Dun Laoghaire\u2019s Lexicon Library for the rest of the summer. The launch talk in July was \u201cvery engaging,\u201d said Susan Lynch, senior executive librarian at Lexicon, who welcomed the timescape. \u201cI don\u2019t usually see so much participation in these workshops.\u201d

At the talk, creator Tom Butler introduced a wide range of topics, weaving together the facts of our existence with the choices we\u2019ve made.

The whole timescape, covering 13.8 billion years, is \u201cjust the introduction,\u201d said Tom, \u201cand the question at the bottom of the last panel is where the conversation really starts: \u2018What future will we choose?\u2019\u201d.

As the conversation turned to the accelerated communication that technology has enabled, workshop participant Fionnuala asked \u201cWhat do you mean by consciousness?\u201d The internet has given us a \u201cglobal brain\u201d, enabling us to share information in real time, and social media is a vast vox pop<\/em>, with trends and memes. But will technology \u201csave\u201d us? Or do we already have the answers that we simply need to uncover? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Hit with Secondary Students<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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These big questions appealed to Tullow Community School students this spring at a separate workshop organised by teacher Ann Corrigan in Tullow. They commented on the vastness of the challenges we face, but also had some answers.

Ann developed an ecological art project to create sculptures using recyled materials from home, in collaboration with internationally renowned Carlow designer Sasha Sykes. The project helped them connect to real issues in our world today, and to find the creativity and vocabulary to express their concerns and solutions.

The timescape served as a practical extension of their environmental science and art curricula, weaving together many threads of a complex story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bringing Art to Science<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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Feast Upon The Earth<\/em> made its debut at the Irish Museum of Modern Art\u2019s Earth Rising eco-festival in September 2023. Hundreds of visitors saw and engaged with the timescape, which drew consistently enthusiastic comments and sparked conversations about our future. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It has since sponsored the Mary Robinson Climate and Nature Conference<\/em> in Ballina, the 50th anniversary event of Friends of the Earth, and has inspired visitors at the Teach Bhride Holistic Education Centre in Tullow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A conversation between Tom and the Brigidine elders earlier this year \u201cbecame a vibrant conversation about the future. It was a productive way to bring a science-based conversation to a faith-based community,\u201d wrote Carmel McEvoy, who invited the exhibition to Teach Bhride.
As the effects of climate change become increasingly apparent, exhibitions like this play a crucial role in helping us all understand the world we live in. One environmental enthusiast said it highlighted our \u201cresponsibility to take action and protect our planet for future generations.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Catch it at the Lexicon to 30 August.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The book of the timescape is available at VISUAL Carlow and Made in Carlow. For more information visit astraea.net\/events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Summer Inspiration At DLR Lexicon, Dublin The inspirational timescape Feast Upon The Earth has moved from Tullow to Dun Laoghaire\u2019s Lexicon Library for the rest of the summer. The launch talk in July was \u201cvery engaging,\u201d said Susan Lynch, senior executive librarian at Lexicon, who welcomed the timescape. \u201cI don\u2019t usually see so much participation …
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