A Case for the Porch
"Lately I've been trying to think like a porch. Trying to think between the
natural and the human. Thinking how best to build during a climate crisis. I
came across John Cage saying that progress in art may be listening to nature. He
thought this activity could best play out on a porch, where we can hear natures
symphony and then breathe our own masterpieces. Can we play our porches like
instruments? So that we listen to but also learn from nature? Doing this will
take practice. Porches are good for that too..."