Peggy Rose

My personal choices in how I live on this Earth changed 20 years ago when I realized that everything I loved would die if we keep on as we were going.  In the last few years, these books have furthered my actions and understandings:  Sand Talk by Tyson Yunkaporta, Hospicing Modernity by Vanessa Machado de Oliveira, and Deep Adaptation, edited by Jem Bendell and Rupert Read.  The most important work is local and social.  This community has value.

The Five Minds

Tissue paper and acrylic paint on canvas
16" x 20"

"Systemic inequality reduces sustainability and resilience.”

The content of this piece comes from Tyson Yunkaporta’s book Sand Talk. He invites us to see the world from the indigenous perspective rather than looking from our own perspective into the indigenous.

The aboriginal elders want this shared with the world.

Use the hand to remember the five minds. The little finger is the kinship mind. Nothing exists except in a relationship. The ring finger is the story mind because we all hold knowledge, and sharing is how we increase knowledge. The middle finger is a turnaround mind, from the abstract to the concrete, in an ever-revolving force linked by metaphor. The pointer finger is the ancestor mind, present when anything is done with deep engagement and intense concentration. The thumb is a pattern mind. This is systems thinking, contextual, holistic, and relational. Pause and look at the world through this lens.

Richard Heinberg quote: “Resilience and sustainability require justice. Therefore much of the leadership for resilience-building efforts must come from communities on the frontlines of ecological disruption.”
©
2023
  • Peggy Rose

Embrace Dependency

Mixed media painting

12”x12”

We see ourselves as independent individuals while, in reality, we depend on global supply chains, global products, global entertainment, etc. We could let this concept of our "independence" go and instead embrace our dependency, on each other, in the place where we are on this earth, with the other beings who are right here sharing it with us.

"Nothing fundamentally new has to be invented for this to happen: local economies have deep and ancient roots, and there are already efforts underway in hundreds of towns and cities around the country" Richard Heinberg, excerpt from the lesson “Economic Relocalization”, Think Resilience online course, Post Carbon Institute.
©
2023
  • Peggy Rose

The Edge Ratio

12" x 12"
Mixed Media

The Edge Ratio: the larger the circle, the smaller its edge relative to the area. More edge equals more diversity, more productivity, and greater stability.

Richard Heinberg: "[...] globalization reaches a point of diminishing returns" [...]"encourages redundancy."
©
2023
  • Peggy Rose

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