Heaven and Earth 1: 2009 Heaven and Earth 2: 2010 Heaven and Earth 3: 2011 Heaven and Earth 4: 2012 Heaven and Earth 5: 2013 Printable Maps (pdf format): letter size: 8 1/2" x 11" tabloid size: 11" x 17" original size: 17.5" x 14" Sponsored by: Center on Contemporary Art Carkeek Park Advisory Council Seattle Parks and Recreation Associated Recreational Council Supported by: Seattle Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs 4CULTURE Goalzero electronics123.com contact David Francis or Ray Freeman to help support this year's show and artists.		Site 3: Philip McGaughy Oakland, California http://www.philmcgaughy.com/ "Stumpscape" In The Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan proposes that apples may be manipulating humans into planting more apple trees, an interaction similar to how flowers use honeybees to spread pollen. The idea of assigning intention, and even consciousness to inanimate objects resonates with me. I have come to think that certain minerals and elements may be sentient, and can adapt to new environments with their own technologies. I have a gut feeling that minerals like gypsum, iron and oil may be seducing and exploiting our human ingenuity to achieve their own ends. Goals that may or may not have anything to do with us. With so many expectations hinging on technological magic tricks like the reverse engineering the human brain, molecular hard drives and quantum computing, my artwork asks for us to keep in mind what Stephen Jay Gould so astutely observed, “The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.” The renowned futurist Ray Kurzweil talks about waking up "dumb" matter like rocks and planets in an attempt to build supercomputers that would sustain synthetic life. Perhaps I have been doing some of the dumb matter's bidding by helping to enable a rebuttal or a call for caution to this line of hubristic thinking. In one hundred years I can imagine an updated version of the Lorax meme, but instead of speaking for the trees, the old hippy creature will speak for the rocks..