Context

The January 30 "Virtual Concert" at talkshoe.com tomorrow will be with Shai Zakai, Israeli ecological artist. One of the projects we will talk about is Concrete Creek, a favorite of mine. She works no matter whether there is war or not, with Palestinians and Israelis. She works even as the region heats up from global warming and when she travels to present her work, she meets anti-Israeli sentiment with grace and inclusiveness. She is a model to learn from. The relevance to the genre of ecological art in general, is how complex context can be when making a simple thing of beauty, out of the degradation we make of our environment.