Michele Guieu
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Exploring the Lifeline
Temporary assemblage made of driftwood suspended from an olive tree
Breil Sur Roya, France
7’H x 5’W x 2’D
I dream that everyone experiments with non-destructive, simple, beautiful practices, and expresses their creativity with joy. Nature, our lifeline, could be the source of everyone’s daily inspiration, courage and awe.
Don’t you think it could change the world?
[...] “The story of consumerism appealed to people’s love of novelty, and it fed on our deeply ingrained urge to display symbols of status. Advertising contains millions of images and messages, but all tell essentially the same story: human satisfaction derives from the ownership of certain objects. To get away from consumerism we will need to replace those satisfactions and symbols not just with vague promises, but with real experiences, and with stories that appeal to our deepest human aspirations. Consumerism replaced satisfying experiences of making, growing, repairing, and sharing with the momentary buzz of buying a new manufactured product. We need to reverse that bargain.”[...]
Richard Heinberg, from “Shifting Cultural Stories”, part of the Think Resilience online course by the Post Carbon Institute.
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A Natural Way of Seeing the World
Ephemeral assemblage made of driftwood
L35” x W25” x H30"
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See the connections
Ephemeral assemblage
Made at my childhood house, at the foot of the Alps in Southern France, with driftwood found on the nearby shore.
December 2021.
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“As a global civilization, as a species, we are sleepwalking toward collapse” Peter Kalmus, NASA Climate Scientist, October 2021.
Ruins in Prat-De-Mollo-La-Preste,
Eastern French Pyrenees, October 2021
4 Photographs
Excerpt of “Collapse”, from the Think Resilience online course by the Post Carbon Institute.
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Paradox
Photograph, 2021.
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To a Regenerative Future
Ephemeral compositionLeaves from my neighborhood, map
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At the Crossroads
Digital Collage
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Now What?
Digital collage
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The genie is out of the bottle
Digital collage
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CO2 is (almost) forever
Digital photography
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Climate Change, Deep Dependency on Oil and Oil Depletion
Digital collage
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Overshoot
Ephemeral compositionPainted wood scraps from a previous project20” x 30”
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What will be the energy sources of the future?
Digital collage (photos taken in the Bay Area and in the Sierras)
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Archipelago
Branches and repurposed yarn
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Planetary Limits
Ephemeral compositionMade of natural elements found during daily walks in my neighborhood.
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When the sky is blue again, Let’s not forget about this. 2020 is screaming at us to rethink “business as usual
The photo was taken September 9, 2020, in Sunnyvale, Bay Area, where I live, as fires were raging through California, Oregon, and Washington.
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Digital photo-collage: California fires, face mask discarded in the neighborhood, Purple Air map
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Switchpoint
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Photograph
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Digital photograph
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Shelter in Place Day 27
Sunprint, digital manipulation
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