Dung beetles and rain - lessons for artists and composers.

Dung beetles and rain - lessons for artists and composers. 

Randal Breen was the Director of Jugglers Art Space from 2002- 2010 at 103 Brunswick Street, Fortitude Valley initiating and overseeing a range of community and fine art initiatives, development and expansion: The Marie Ellis OAM Prize for Drawing, Brisbane Artist Run Initiatives Festival [ BARI], Emerging Artist Development Program [ EADP] and public murals - e.g. Platform 9 [ Roma Street Station] Platform 1 [Central Station]. 

Randal, with his wife, Juanita and children Eli and Bridey is now happily farming at Goomburra [ SE Qld] working through issues around sustainability in drought within a regenerative farming model and has found with the recent rain some remarkable and ongoing lessons about our world, ecology and the environment. Here is his report today on the beauty of dung, beetles and a little bit of rain: 

"With moisture comes life, and not just plants but animals too. Check this out. Recently after some rain we saw an eruption of life burst forth on the farm. For a short period these beetles were everywhere flying, breeding and burrowing back into the soil. They appear to me to be a type of cane beetle that lives as a grub in the soil. The symbiosis between animal, plant and soil, the environmental cues they send each other, and the rich tapestry of life never ceases to amaze me. The natural world just seems to be able to listen to each other so effectively. 
I can’t help but get a bit jealous of this truly interconnected relationship, a system that doesn’t work on clock time but works on natural time. 

As a noisy brained human we can find it so difficult to just shut up and listen. 

Maybe one day if we all try hard enough we will be able to reconnect with these natural elements and learn from the beetles. 😀🐝🐛🌻 #bettlesandbugs #regenerativeagriculture#newlife #moisturerestoresfunction 

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