User:Adèle/the garden of an old lady

The second chapter is inspired by encounters with two different women and their reality.

-I spend time at Marie-Rose's house in Huy where I integrated her routine, we talked about her watercolors, her garden, and the nuclear power plant in Tihange, we walked around, and we made drawings.
-I'm planing a week at Bridget's house in Poderino Italy, where I'll meet my sister and my friend Lola to lend our hands to help her build a food forest in her garden.

chapter 2 (The garden of an old lady)

locations:
---> A plane
---> An Aliexpress package filled with earth
---> The garden of an old lady

wormy characters:
---> Marie-Rose
---> Bridget
---> A community of four ensenia foetida, more commonly called red worms due to their color. On the market they are named compost worms or fishing worms: Donna, Rhonda, Rob and Guillem
---> A drawing made by Marie-Rose 

with Marie-Rose

Marie-Rose's landscapes:

multiple representations of the nuclear plant in Tihange, Belgium - found amongst her drawings

Two things bother and scare Marie-Rose: the neighboring nuclear power plant and the construction of the Alibaba airport in Liège.
The power plant is ugly, and the planes from Alixepress wake her up at night.

image building with Marie-Rose:

earworm, same old same old
Graphite on found paper

Huy safety - Marie-Rose's rescuing hands - declassification of Tihange, "safe, responsible, and eco-friendly"

Hangzou-Huy in 17 hours - red worms on Aliexpress

Ressources
The construction of the nuclear plant in Thiange: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EABUEOfx1Js
The destruction of the nuclear plant in Thiange:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3Agv7oD4ak
https://www.arte.tv/en/videos/101940-003-A/nuclear-waste/
https://www.stop-tihange.org/fr/
The closing of Thiange, A real challenge for the Walloon economy and job opportunities...
https://www.lecho.be/economie-politique/belgique/wallonie/la-fermeture-de-tihange-defi-majeur-pour-huy-et-l-emploi-liegeois/10264757.html

The arriving of Alibaba in Liège's Airport to secure Job opportunities...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHIhgxav9LY
L’AERoFAUNE – Marc Monaco et Sébastien Demeffe https://www.radiocampus.be/
https://www.hellocarbo.com/blog/calculer/empreinte-carbone-avion/?fbclid=IwAR0mDRLxxBwqEikc8el-H_huLsvppFZEEEsjGyJo7X4waMkMc4OdXDphjGc

with Bridget

(to come)

Ressources

the drawing and the worms

(to come)

resources that are being digested together:

Time Is Away - John Berger: Pig Earth London, 24.01.22

"In 1974, John Berger moved to the remote peasant community of Quincy in the Haute-Savoie. There he worked in the fields and immersed himself in village life. These experiences formed the basis of Pig Earth, a book and documentary film made in collaboration with Jean Mohr and Mike Dibb. This program uses Pig Earth to take a peasant’s-eye view of rapid social, economic and environmental change in the early 1980s. Reflecting the harsh realities of peasant life, it contains some descriptions which listeners may find disturbing."

Quotes:

"It is said that peasant have a very strong property sense. And this is odd, because mostly they have owned so little. Their passion about owning the land they work has been genuinely misunderstood by the bourgeois, because they have taught that the peasant sense of property is like their own, and it isn’t. By revolutionaries who have failed to see why even poor peasant oppose collectivization. The ceaseless physical, outgoing effort of work on the earth means that peasants don’t make a distinction between their own physical being and its being, the earth being. Nobody talks about owning ones own body, it’s temporarily and inalienably ones own. And peasant feel the same way about the land on which they work. Try working one day, as they work every day of the year, and fatigue will make you loose any sense of the contours of your body, you will become part of what surrounds you."

Time is Away - city country city

Dean, T. and Millar, J. (2005). Lieu. Paris: Thames & Hudson.

Dusan Kazic. Quand Les Plantes N’en Font Qu’à Leur Tête. Paris, Empêcheurs De Penser En Rond Ed, 2022.

Fukuoka, Masanobu, et al. The One-Straw Revolution : An Introduction to Natural Farming. New York, New York Review Books, 2009.

https://pad.xpub.nl/p/Brussels2

How to dig a well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNSmNS62or0&t=705s