To see a world in a grain of sand,
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
And eternity in an hour.
Since 1999 we have focused
our efforts on a single point, on just 1000 yards of beach. We have cast Kehoe
Beach in the Point Reyes National Seashore as the stage for a drama that
explores ideas of (dare we say it without irony in this postmodern world?) love
and beauty. This pinpoint of land is an exemplar of the planetary problem of
plastic pollution.
William Blake’s lines from
the beginning of the Auguries of Innocence was a precursor to John Muir’s famous line, "When
we try to pick anything out by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in
the universe." In the science of Holography the illusion of 3-D images are
achieved where every point of the image reflects all other points. Each point
is a full image of the whole. Indra in Hindu mythology lays an infinite net
over the universe where at every juncture a jewel hangs reflecting all other
jewels.
Kehoe Beach is our jewel on
the net and the site of our ongoing investigation. We have taken up the study
of geology, botany, biology, along with the history and development of polymers
and plastic. One interest leading to another to another as a perfect example of
how everything is connected to everything else.
