To you, my friendZa tebe

This is the first entry in my blog. I haven’t done this before, so I  beg your forgiveness if my words and sentences will seem a little confusing and jumbled. If you have read the project description, then you probably already know that this beautiful initiative was started by Beatriz Da Costa (June 11, 1974 – December 27, 2012) who was an interdisciplinary artist.

Her work dealt with contemporary art, scientific discipline, engineering, and government. She was the artist whose projects got the form of public interventions and workshops, conceptual tool building, and critical writing. She and her collaborators launched the Anticancer Survival Kit, which was the part of her Creative Capital-supported project, The Cost of Life. Beatriz who was known as “Shani” to friends and family, died in the on Thursday December 27, 2012.

Dear Beatriz your idea will always be carved in every seed we plant, and this is our Thank You. Also, with our task and our anticancer gardens, we desire to make homage to all beautiful men, woman and children who still fight or who died fighting cancer.

Cancer is a state in which our physical structure, mind and spirit challenge us to prove how strong we really are. Anticancer garden is also about our impressions and thoughts that express our aspirations towards finding balance in communication with everything that surrounds us.

The thing is we need to find a new way to communicate with plants and herbs. To see them and feel them like old shamans used to do. Our inspiration is the first sprouts that occur from each source. We’d like to share our enthusiasm with you, then you could as well start one day your own magical herbal garden.

Like Terrence McKenna once said: “Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored.”

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