Littering with Nature
Lost your ability to appreciate wilderness? Does communing with nature = does not compute? Come exercise your radical empathy muscles by engaging with the non-human living world through an intimate act humankind knows all too well: littering. But this time, on nature's terms. At Littering with Nature, you'll take an item that nature itself has thrown away—a broken branch, fallen leaves, a pile of snow—and insert yourself into the cycle by re-discarding them elsewhere. Put on a tag detailing your item and location for others to contemplate, and you're done! You've met the natural world halfway on the obscure path to harmony in our environmentally fraught modern times.
A day-long accumulating participatory installation at Fort Snelling State Park commissioned by Northern Lights.mn for the 4Play winter festival in 2017. Cards retrieved at end for documentation display.