2015, Wildekrans, Western Cape, South Africa - Leaves of Change

"Leaves of Change"

Site: Wildekrans Country House, Houw Hoek, Overberg, Western Cape, South Africa

Medium: Found wood, reeds, screws & hemp twine

2015

 

“Step through the wind that rustle the leaves of trees, plants & weeds

on the slope of a mountain – fallen, standing, tall

the trees that read the memory of the leaves

 

Defined shades and lines cast by the long limbs of the trees

Let all the green leaves be yours – the brown, dry and dark

left as food for soil, home to the ants and wood lice.

 

Walk along, follow your heart, over river, and pathways

Footsteps crushing leaves and bark into the land, into yourself.

To feel much more than know.

 

Read these leaves. Re-think what you have been told

dismiss whatever insults your soul”

 

- Janet Botes, Wildekrans, 2015 – with phrases from Dejan Stojanovic, Munia Khan and Walt Whitman