Nicky Roscoe-Calvert
Prompted by this post by @mariapopova, here is one of my own responses to the removal of 'nature words' from the Oxford Children's Dictionary, and the Lost Words project.
( https://indieweb.social/@mariapopova/112001313170862151 )
This was a temporary installation in a community garden/woodland in Liverpool, part of a residency with Not Just Collective in 2018.
Like my earlier work Wilweorthunga, this piece was inspired by the idea of "clootie trees" and healing.
Maria Popova (@[email protected])
When the Oxford children's dictionary discarded dozens of nature-words—"dandelion," "fern," "starling" — as irrelevant to kids' imagination and replaced them with words like "broadband" and "cut-and-paste," this wildly inspired act of resistance was born: https://t.co/Is4zFAQqc6
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