Transmission 001 - Welcome
The Redwood Underground is a collaborative mixed media Initiative. Serving as a repository for cultural renewal. Including an archive of cultural richness, functioning as a traditional label representing artists, as well as publishing articles, essays, poems, and conversations. We seek to provide the narrative and growth infrastructure to amplify signals of regeneration.
A signal from the fertile soil of an ancient forest.
Even after near annihilation the Redwoods give strength to share a message of Love. A message dedicated to the harmonious future of life on earth. They are lesson of mother nature’s need for protection, and the capability of men blinded by greed and short term gratification.
Our current world is marked by fragmentation and decay, as well as unprecedented technological acceleration. However decomposition is essential to a healthy culture, psyche, and ecosystem. All systems are a microcosm of the macrocosm and only through the breakdown of the old, does the new becomes possible.
Here at the Redwood Underground we know that we hold immense potential as stewards of this world’s growth. The chance to birth new iterative systems built from the lessons of our past failures.
Honor the value of ancient practices and also acknowledge the inevitability of a technology dominated future.
In order to promote harmony we must defend our humanity and understand what is necessary for our consciousness to thrive. This requires building systems that fuse the old and the new.
Across the world, communities are building and preserving ways of living, creating, stewarding, gathering, healing, and belonging. These are our cultural bastions, fortifying the ancient pillars of community that provides cohesion for humanity.
Many are working in isolation.
The Redwood Underground exists to help them find one another.
We seek out signals of regenerative culture and amplify them. Starting in the crimson woodland of Santa Cruz we document what is emerging. We connect those carrying similar frequencies. We strengthen the roots of a culture already coming into being.
Another world is not merely possible.
Its first shoots are already breaking through the soil.
Our task is to recognize them, nourish them, and weave them together.
This is the first transmission.
