Green, circuits, and what holds memory
- Carol Burns
- Mar 2
- 1 min read
Last week was all about the organic.
If you follow me on social media, you’ll have seen that I finished a painting steeped in green.
I was thinking about how landscapes hold what has happened.
How growth doesn’t erase the past. It settles around it.
It feels like a place where change has already begun.
Where something is becoming.
This week, the focus has shifted.
From moss and memory... to metal and circuitry.
This morning I found myself sitting cross legged on the studio floor, pliers in hand, attempting to pry tiny components off the top of an old motherboard. I am now the proud owner of a small pile of salvaged tech ready to be collaged into a painting.
It will either be great... or a total disaster.
There is only one way to find out!
And while I was thinking about circuits and systems, I came across something that felt strangely aligned.
Did you know that the UK’s first geothermal power plant has just gone live in Cornwall?
Water sent three miles underground. Heated by the Earth. Returned as steam. Turning turbines. Generating power. Quietly. Reliably. Without sun or wind.
Energy stored in the planet itself.
It struck me that both the green painting and the motherboard experiment are circling the same idea.
Systems that hold.
Systems that generate.
Systems that endure.
Organic.
Technological.
Not opposites.
Just different ways of moving energy through the world.
Wish me luck with the circuitry.
Speak Soon,
Carol
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