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Another retrospective on seasons of Rammed-Earth built expertly in a veritable blaze of activity by a gaggle of eager students. I think there will be at least 1 more coming until we get up to date. The process of using local materials and even naturally derived dyes is alone enticing for the eco-minded, but the sense of building something beautiful and enduring promises to satiate an innate desire for connecting and translating into pragmatic and modern terms our relationship to the natural world.
The sound track may seem like a curve ball to some, and in that they may be justified; courtesy of the inimitable, insightful and sublime Sufjan Stevens - Chicago. Its all a matter of interpretation of course and although I was somewhat hesitant in using it, the subtle psychology and emotional resonances it inculcates and evokes is a metaphor (what else could it be), for the forsaken and the unseen.
We live in a world that is powered by a sort of anti-scientific insensitivity celebrated through the relentless aegis of the so-called industrial revolution which was the engine and the progeny of colonialism, still rampant to the day. Indeed, the western scientific paradigm represented by Malthus, Linnaeus and Sir Humphrey Davey to name but a few has now been apotheosised by Schwab, Musk, Kurzweil and the feckless wonder, Harrari.
Rammed-Earth, with its EMF repulsion and absorption together with a compendium of other salutary and nerve-soothing qualities almost seems like a rebellious antidote to the cheap, the fake and the ephemeral. Heres hoping you enjoy this offering and what it represents in a world predicated on built-in obsolescence and general uselessness.
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