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Aug 12, 2023

"I want to inhabit my life like a porch." --Rebecca Wells

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..."