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I want to ask myself as a member of the human species: Who am I as a human? How do I live and locate myself as an Earth dweller within a myriad of relationships embedded within the living and non-living worlds? How might I live or respond differently that reflects myself as a creative dweller of not only this Earth, but of this galaxy and this universe? How does the Anthropocene speak to me? I offer here my practice of touching the earth, an earth-based arts practice I have been developing for over 20 years which is articulated as a ‘poetics of place’ through two landscapes in Australia: ocean and desert.
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Birrell, C. (2017). A Precarious Body. In: Malone, K., Truong, S., Gray, T. (eds) Reimagining Sustainability in Precarious Times. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-2550-1_6
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