MayBe Art is a NETWORK OF RELATIONSHIPS
Gwen Adler
Canal house 1
16″ x 16″
digital photograph
www.gwenadler.com
Heather Malcom
Cary Institute of Ecosystems Study
Bryozoan photograph
Bryozoans, (moss animals) live in the Hudson River. Almost all bryozoans are colonial, composed of anywhere from a few to millions of individuals. The most integrated colonies behave like individual organisms. The zooid colony are all specialized for certain functions yet are all connected to each other.
David Strayer 
Freshwater Ecologist
 Ph.D., 1984, Cornell University
www.caryinstitute.org/people_sci_strayer.html
“All living things in an ecosystem are interconnected through networks of relationship. They depend on this web of life to survive. By shifting their focus to relationships instead of separate entities, scientists made an amazing discovery–amazing at least to the mainstream western mind. They discovered that nature is self-organizing. Or rather, assuming that to be the case, they set about discerning the principles by which this self-organizing occurs. They found these principles or system properties to be awesomely elegant in their simplicity and constancy throughout the observable universe, from sub organic to biological and ecological systems, and mental and social systems, as well. The proper-ties of open systems which permit the variety and intelligence of life-forms to arise from interactive currents of matter and energy are four in number.”
Joanna Macy, Eco-philosopher Joanna Macy PhD, is a scholar of Buddhism, general systems theory, and deep ecology.
www.joannamacy.net