Image: Kelly, Deborah, Norman, Sara Jane, 2021, Liturgy of the Saprophyte, Liturgy Cards for The Book of CREATION, 2022, Lead Artist, Deborah Kelly, https://www.creationtheproject.com/liturgy, Griffith University Art Museum, Griffith University, Brisbane QLD, Aust, https://www.creationtheproject.com/liturgy, accessed: 21.06.2022.
BCM 110 Assignment 3 Title: Sister GlitterNullius: conceptualising the monstering through representation and the gaze of the Other.
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Put aside your fear of me and let me be a warning, not your panic (Falkof, 2018).
Here, I am empathy, your empathy.
I offer you, we, human and non, comfort.
I invite that we pray for our non-human community, for our actions that are the sins we commit against Nature, and subsequently against ourselves (Bruno & Wilson, 2002; Hammond 2004; Haraway, 2010, 2016, 2018; Kelly, 2022; Langton, 2002; Norman, 2022; Todd, 2015; Tsing et al, 2017; Yunkaporta, 2019).
In urgent prayer, we monsters invite that, we become the constant knowing of truth allowing our prayers and actions be simultaneous, and that we remember the truth we forget. Raise yourself to face the Sun, the Moon and all of Nature’s creations as I invite you to reshape, re-contextualise all that we know and do (Hammond 2004; Haraway, 2010, 2016, 2018; Kelly, 2022; Norman, 2022; Todd, 2015; Tsing et al, 2017).
Collaborate, to the survival needs of the Natural environment. For, We Am (Bruno & Wilson, 2002; Hammond 2004; Haraway, 2010, 2016, 2018; Kelly, 2022; Langton, 2002; Norman, 2022; Todd, 2015; Tsing et al, 2017; Yunkaporta, 2019).
Hear me, my children… From monster to superhero, I dare cross the threshold by way of offering you my confession (Alighieri, 1320; Hammond 2004; Kelly, 2022; Norman, 2022; 2015).
I confess to all the Natural alignments of Nature’s creation and our Ancestors, that I am the consequence. I am the inevitable, obvious outcome. I confess I am the unavoidable messenger (Alighieri, 1320, Bruno & Wilson, 2002; Hammond 2004; Haraway, 2010, 2016, 2018, Kelly, 2022, Langton, 2002; Norman, 2022; Todd, 2015; Tsing et al, 2017; Yunkaporta, 2019).
I confess that I am a sinner.
A liar, thief, consumer-murderer, failure and hypocrite. I declare here, my incongruence with Nature’s Ancestry and I live, yet still, a testament to the original intention for my humanity and all encompassing power and resilience of that same Ancestry (Alighieri, 1320; Hammond 2004; Haraway, 2010, 2016, 2018; Kelly, 2022; Langton, 2002; Norman, 2022; Tsing et al, 2017; Yunkaporta, 2019).
I confess that I am the corrupted innocent-sinner, a relic of imperialist hierarchies and an ancient child of Saltwater, borne into the Anthropocene. I err severely, often and will reoffend, repeatedly (Alighieri, 1320, Bruno & Wilson, 2002; Hammond 2004; Haraway, 2010, 2016, 2018, Kelly, 2022, Langton, 2002; Norman, 2022; Todd, 2015; Tsing et al, 2017; Yunkaporta, 2019).
For all these and more, I am trully sorry and am not worthy of forgiveness. This is my confession of my colonised humanity and the undertaking of my monstrosity to devote my existence to the plight of all Nature’s beings, micro-organism to mountain (Alighieri, 1320, Bruno & Wilson, 2002; Hammond 2004; Haraway, 2010, 2016, 2018, Kelly, 2022, Norman, 2022; Todd, 2015; Tsing et al, 2017).
This my equality.
Truth, I am a monster. Simultaneous truth, I am not a monster (Hammond 2004; Haraway, 2010, 2016, 2018, Kelly, 2022; Norman, 2022; Tsing et al, 2017).
I am you. We am. We all am, human and non-human, equal.
Simultaneous final truth, we-human must be the healing. A circle, end at the beginning (Bruno & Wilson, 2002; Hammond 2004; Haraway, 2010, 2016, 2018, Kelly, 2022, Langton, 2002; Norman, 2022; Todd, 2015; Tsing et al, 2017; Yunkaporta, 2019).
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