Virtual Residency Sixteen, Art Pollination

In Britain, 70% of plants that depend upon pollination by various insects have declined, reports Science News July 22, 2006. That appears to be caused by dwindling bees. In the North Atlantic, it also reported, unusually warm waters is driving unprecedented hurricane formation.
In the human world, there seems to be war at every turn.

How may we preserve balance? Pollinate the world with beauty, art? Is that blowing in the wind? Goya and Picasso showed the disasters of war. Humans are at war with each other and with nature. What does that look like?

In Pescia I imagine the "Numbered Trees" with vivid blue symbols on each Chestnut tree in the forest that make a cumulative whole. In New Delhi I envision the bright colored pails the women use to gather the water from the delivery trucks. In a wide swathe around the globe, I visualize the "circumpolar" distributions of species, all of which are now migrating North or South to escape global warming and the climate changes it is causing. I am told that the white spruce we love here cannot out migrate the pace of global warming. That leaves me with the image of falling trees... and perhaps amongst the trees, the fallen bodies of people and animals felled by the same insanity.