Small is All
Small is All is a creative reflection on adrienne maree brown’s Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds. This project focuses on lessons about (decentralized) organizing and community building that can be found in nature by drawing parallels between the roles of "small" and - to all appearances - insignificant decomposers, to the importance of small actions within healthy movements. Using Land and fungi (whose relationship to the forest is crucial to sustaining a healthy ecosystem) as subjects, Small is All emphasizes the importance of interdependent relationships in system wide transformation and bringing about change to larger social systems & structures.
Subject/Land Ancestor: Tualatin hills, ancestral lands and territory of the Tualatin (Atfalati) Kalapuyans and Chinookan peoples recognized by the settler colonial state as Portland, Forest Park, Upper + Lower Macleay Trail, Oregon, and the Fungal Ancestors/Lineages that reside there.
THIS PROJECT WAS A CULMINATING PROJECT FOR THE Iu Mien Rad Reading Group - A Cold Rice Collaborative (CRC) PROJECT. AFTER COMPLETING A READING, PARTICIPANTS DID A CREATIVE REFLECTION ON LESSONS, IDEAS, AND TAKEAWAYS. CREATIVE REFLECTIONS RANGED FORM VISUAL ART, WRITTEN PIECES, AND SIMPLE VERBAL REFLECTIONS.
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