Don’t Kill the Golden Goose: the Uncontrollable is Sacred.

I could build the perfect wall in my studio, then maybe a rail, and all the other things besides. I’d never have to venture outside; I would have the perfect self-contained environment of practice.

Except...

Except, I would lose the part of my practice that demands adapting to a changing scenario by finding hidden solutions.

Except, I would lose the part of my practice that pushes me out of my comfort zone.

Except, I would lose the part of my practice that involves discovering unknowns within the task, as the environment itself changes in unpredictable ways.

Except, wouldn’t the entire endeavor denature the essence of an “Environmental Movement Practice”?

Environment represents what we don’t have control over. This uncontrollability is tied fundamentally together with the qualities that we turn to environment for - it is a golden goose, and if we exert too much influence, we suffocate it.

This is endemic to movement practice, a key genetic material - we must embrace it, planting seeds that nourish chaos and uncertainty within the edifices, concrete and conceptual, that we build.