A project by Jasper Griepink. Honorable graduate and friend.

’In my art work I was always fascinated by certain parts of science, linking our bodies and physical world together as one, as an endless enfolding and reclining mass. A create and destroy mastering all materials. – In a sense I look for companionship in these factual signs of our actual connection, I am looking for evidence of our home. I am looking for the signs of paradise. The whole we became disunited from’ .

On a cosmic scale, we humans don’t travel much further than plants do; all living in a wondrously melodic atmosphere. Until this point in history we have modeled our more successful economic systems on animal predation. Animals can potentially move on to another resource when they exhaust the one at hand. Since they can move to new food sources, they potentially have unlimited resources. Plants are more fixed. They can not easily move to richer nutrients or leave an area if they foul or deplete it. They must recycle well. All capitalistic models presuppose unlimited exploitable resources and labor pools, yet neither should now be assumed.

In the 1989 issue of Whole Earth Review, American author, public speaker and art historian Terrence McKenna wrote about Veriditas, which is a term for the green side of mind first described by Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179) in her 1151 book Scivias.
Veriditas is a focus on nurturing and excavating the now and the here, rather than the hope to hit El Dorado in the future, or of finding all that we desire for on the other side of an ocean.

‘ The tooth-and-claw struggle for existence, with the survivor taking the hindmost, is a model based on naïve observation of animal behavior. Yet it was cheerfully extended into the realm of plants.. and into that of humans.
This to explain the evolutionary interactions thought to cause speciation and diversity in the botanical world. Later, more sophisticated observers found not the War in Nature that Darwinists reported, but rather a situation in which it was not the competitive ability, but the ability to maximize cooperation with other species that most directly contributed to an organism’s ability to function and endure as a member of a biome.
Plants interact with each other trough the tangled mat of roots that connects them all. Like our World Wide Web ‘

to continue on the story of the Mandragora and the world of Greed, please take a look at my Essay.

Like caves of love, overgrown with treasures of moist plants and flowers, the shallow and hard surfaces will be transformed into gardens of experience. Once we find the occasion to deploy the ability we have to quarry in depth, rather than think in distance. (the mindset of the Plant in respect to the mindset of the animal). The Ability to Garden; pay attention to; or love; that which is already around us right now.

For is it not, that Paradise is a Garden.
And are we not; so immanently far
from being keen Gardeners ?

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I gave my Seedlings Bodies. I gave them a fine set of roots. I teached them how to nurture. I teached them how to speak. They Sprung from my Womb. They are still part of me. But now they are to Hasted to listen; to the stories of their bodies; and the stories of their flower.

nine months.
nine months.
From seed to Blossom.
a bodily devotion the mother makes.
A miraculous humanic plant as a result.
The human fruit.
a Root with a conscious.
An occupation of space

A gift of motion.
A gift of corpus.

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Devotion. Devotion must be a wise investment. Devotions that are harder to make in a world that is speeding up by the minute, and overflows you with information. It is harder in a world where there is an inability or uneasiness with time as a spacious entity; when something takes time (as if it would steal our space (or matter), we get anxious. ‘ !EFFICIENTCY AND EXPANSION! ‘ is our creed. And we keep on exploiting time rather than excavating it with care and attention; making the space inside time bigger and more enriched.
We are speeded – And Excelerating – We are like Animals; Greedily devouring the planet without limitations.

But the Mandragora is here. And my Seedlings will crown him the Green Knight of Veriditas. The Flowergun user – the soft yet enduring push.
soon.

All images and text from Jasper Griepink.