Comment:
When I watch, particularly with the music you have coupled with it, I get a sense of the ascendancy of the body, not just the biological substance. I see that the body of any organism is how it gains access to the world and each species has its own meaningful schema. To us, the bodies of frogs have always been particularly instructive--as you say, a cultural artifact. In our folklore they represent transformation, hidden talent, and ascendancy, and now we are losing the material substance of that schema. Rather alarming! What does this say about our current cultural self-story? What happens to the paradigm of embodied transformation? With their exit are we losing the imagination to change ourselves?
Sherri Balch Segovia
