Picture: Steph Shipley, 2023
Semi-permanence: Weeded Wales’s weeds weed weeded Wales.
Engage in weeding of Paul Davies’ Relief Map of Wales and create your own Map of Wales from the weeded weeds.
Then create a score for someone who wants to engage with Paul Davies’ semi-permanent Relief Map of Wales.
Semi-permanence for a living sculpture
Allow the change of seasons to resonate in your weeding of Paul Davies’ Relief Map of Wales.
Life is permanence, living is semi-permanence.
Is weeding a form of life or living?
Is weeding a form of care for life or for living?
Is weeding a form of care of life or of living?
What do you care for when you are weeding?
Once you completed your weeding of Paul Davies’ Relief Map of Wales, use the weeded weeds for a ceremonial ritual that commemorates your previous weeding. Try to translate your thoughts on the listed questions into the ceremonial ritual.
Weeding weeding
Is weeding Paul Davies’ Relief Map of Wales a form of creation? Or is it a form of destruction?
While weeding Paul Davies’ Relief Map of Wales change the weeding’s performance:
Here are some suggestions:
Kind weeding
Creative weeding
Destructive weeding
Silent weeding
Chatty weeding
Colonial weeding
Careful weeding
Hilarious weeding
Enthusiastic weeding
Friendly weeding
Selective weeding
Healing weeding
Ambitious weeding
Curative weeding
“Every day, I make a Map of Wales” (Paul Davies)
Be selective while weeding Paul Davies’ Relief Map of Wales.
Dedicate your attention, time and care to one specific area of the Relief Map of Wales or the wider Llyn Alaw site.
Dedicate your weeding to one specific species.
What do you see and learn from the specific area, the specific species and their relation to each other?
How do your learnings relate to your own personal Map of Wales?
How can we create a score for someone who wants to engage with Paul Davies’ semi-permanent Relief Map of Wales.
Weeds Poetry
Practice weeding as a form of poetry.
Then create a score for someone who wants to engage with Paul Davies’ semi-permanent Relief Map of Wales.
Rooting through Uprooting
How can uprooting be an essential element – and not a counterpart – of rooting?
How can earthing be an essential element – and not a counterpart – of unearthing?
How can disappearing be an essential element – and not a counterpart – of permanence?
Then create a score for someone who wants to engage with Paul Davies’ semi-permanent Relief Map of Wales.
Creative Curational Care
Conceptualise your care of the Relief Map of Wales.
Conceptualise your creation of the Relief Map of Wales.
Conceptualise your Curation of the Relief Map of Wales.
By doing. Through doing. In doing. With doing.
Then create a score for someone who wants to engage with Paul Davies’ semi-permanent Relief Map of Wales.
Dialogical Wales
Dialogue Dialoge Dilog Wilog Wiloge Welogi Wedogil Weelogid Weedol Weedi Weedil Weediog Weediogel Weedialogel Weedialogul Weedialogue.
While weeding the Relief Paul Davies’ Map of Wales instigate a dialogue.
Nature and Nurture
Accept the generous gifts of weeds from Paul Davies’ Relief Map of Wales.
Nurture yourself and create your own semi-permanent artwork.
Comfort or Fort
Paul Davies’ Relief Map of Wales seems embedded in a comforting fort – or comforted in a mother’s womb. Sleeping Beauty?
Explore how weeding can be a rewriting of these male phantasies of control over the female, then create a score for engaging with Paul Davies’s semi-permanent Relief Map of Wales.
Scores for Wales
Create a score for engaging with Paul Davies’s semi-permanent Relief Map of Wales.
In the right place
If weeds are plants in the wrong place, how can you change this place to make it in the right place?