How To: Animal Communication
response to barbara janelle
By Jenna Ferri (06/05/10 17:15:20)
Barbara Janelle was not what I had expected. She was very calm and collected and didn't seem as "crazy" as an animal communicator would seem. She had some extremely interesting points that I thought were insightful. The exercises we did with the tree massage and the approaching a person from the side made me reconsider how I view nature and how my persona comes off to others.
This interactive experience got me thinking about doing a project with trees because they are so often forgotten when collaborating. I only got to the brainstorming process but I was trying to think of a way that human would be encouraged to interact with the tree and feel a need to reciprocate. I was thinking of hanging pieces of paper from the branches that give facts about how trees are used in medical uses and in collaboration with human all the time and juxtaposing them with facts on how many trees we cut down daily. While I think this would be an eye opening piece, it didn't quite lure people into experiencing the magic the tree has to offer so I aborted it.
Barbara Janelle though was very interesting in the way she could learn from the small signs of animals and she definitely got me thinking about alternative and less obvious ways of collaborating!


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