Cecelia Chapman

Cold Mountain video series 2023 in process…explores human relationships with the natural environment. The title is from the legendary Tang era (618–907) poet translated in Gary Snyder’s 1950’s Cold Mountain. In Asian painting two sage-hobos giggling and pointing at the moon are repeatedly depicted. Jack Kerouac’s characterised the two in his novel, The Dharma Bums 1958. Hunters Heart ends with the line ‘clouds like fish scales,’ that indicate good weather and waves, and leads into Surfers Soul video chapter. To the surfer and hunter, ‘fish scale clouds’ is an example of a relationship in conversation with environment. “Who can sit with me among white clouds?” Rafael Gonzalez and Hal McGee music.