Bedtime Story Conservatory 14 09/04/2020

Hello,

Trees trees trees! Chant it under your breath.

The 'Palmer's Oak' in California's Jurupa Mountains is known as one of the oldest trees on earth, existing through cloning itself for over 13,000 years. It exists as a dense 2.5km wide area of 1m high stems. 

"By repeatedly cloning itself, the Palmer’s oak has lived past the separation of Britain from continental Europe, the demise of the mammoths and saber-toothed cats, and the birth of human agriculture. It is among the oldest plants in existence, first sprouting from an acorn around 13,000 years ago." - NG

Approximately 5300 miles away, is the tree I talk about in this reading today, in the local park of my town, Loughborough, in the East Midlands of England. 

The text is my own writing. I'm excited to add that to the reading, sounds have been added in a sort of reactionary collaboration by Andrea Bel Roset, a director and playwright from Barcelona:

"Computer- Synthesizers: bells, bass sounds, strings...My fingers and nails rubbing the wooden table. My childhood red melodica. The birds that I can listen from my room since everything is quiet and silent outside.Me muttering into a tea cup from yesterday. Some papers sliding on the table. Samuel's voice."

Link to the reading- 

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Qp1rjn9FQvIcvpm2IzuXX4vNrfrMoM7F

Link to previous readings-

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1t4v042zpGgwI7KN6_ST_tAthqm63J22V

Warm wishes and with love,

Sam