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Alien
adjective
1. belonging to a foreign country
2. (of a plant or animal species) introduced from another country and later naturalized
3. unfamiliar and disturbing or distasteful
4. supposedly from another world; extraterrestrial.
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For my walk with words, I took the word assemblage, multispecies, and kin for a walk. I wanted to find things that connected to the words and represented them. Letting nature guide the way.
Assemblage, Kin, Multispecies
Many objects are in one place on the ground and hanging where there once stood a building. A building with life and movement that now has become a place with objects that may or may not "belong" in that place. But somehow this place with human-made objects we have nature making its way through. That made me think of the Chthulucene which is the concept from Haraway: “the Chthulucene is made up of ongoing multispecies stories and practices of becoming-with in times that remain at stake, in precarious times, in which the world is not finished and the sky has not fallen — yet.” (Tentacular Thinking: Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Chthulucene - Journal #75 September 2016 - E-flux, n.d.) Different objects and species that we find in this one location have found a way to work together. In a very man-made world nature has found a way to co-exist with our objects, buildings, and inventions. But how well do humans blend in with nature? This space made me question how well these objects actually work in nature. As the painting on the wall, we might feel like some objects are like aliens to nature, they do maybe not belong there. They are put there and nature has to find a way to work around these foreign objects.
Zooming out from my picture, thinking of the location of this picture. How has this place been used before, how are the objects related to just this space? Why do the lines hang across this space? Living and non-living things are gathered here at this location.
"Human beings are with and of the Earth, and the biotic and abiotic powers of this Earth are the main story." (Tentacular Thinking: Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Chthulucene - Journal #75 September 2016 - E-flux, n.d.) The objects come from human creation integrated into nature. This space for quite some time might have been ruled by humans maybe kin. Still, nature has taken over now, finding its way to adapt to the space.
References
Tentacular Thinking: Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Chthulucene - Journal #75 September 2016 - e-flux. (n.d.). https://www.e-flux.com/journal/75/67125/tentacular-thinking-anthropocene-capitalocene-chthulucene/
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