STORY TELLING THROUGH ART ABOUT LOSS AND REDUCTION OF INFORMATION: DANIEL BOYD AT THE BRITISH NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM

DANIEL BOYD WITH COLONIAL ART. As part of his artist residency at the London Natural History Museum, Daniel Boyd examined colonial art made at the time of their invasion of Australia in 1788.

Hallelujah for JOURNEY dear fellow PILGRIMS! Here in London, I have met Daniel Boyd, an Australian Aboriginal ARTIST, in the form of his work at the Natural History Museum.

As a Natural History Museum Artist in Residence (2012), he has created a new body of work that examines the way information is portrayed in ART. Depending on who we are--economically, socially, ethnically, spiritually--determines how we TELL OUR STORIES. As a descendant of Aboriginals, the Vanuatu in northeastern Australia, Daniel Boyd was particularly interested in investigating the British artwork done at the time the British colonized Australia. The conceptual ARTWORK he makes in response to his investigations is thought provoking.

As everyone knows, when a land is overtaken by foreign invaders, unspeakable horrors occur. However, this rape, killing, and destruction of communities is often not documented by the invaders in their ART. Certainly, in the case of the British invasion of Australia in 1788, this is true. Archived in the Natural History Museum are watercolors painted from the perspective of the violent invader. These watercolors document the flora, fauna, and historical moments of the British interaction with the indigenous people of Australia. As an American of European descent, these skilled and beautifully executed watercolors resonate with the sense I have of my own country's history as conveyed in ART. And I have never questioned the perspective of these images as any other than the HISTORY or STORY that WAS (how embarrassing!).

Daniel Boyd has spent his time at the Natural History Museum examining these colonial watercolors and asking questions. What information is not being told? What information was lost and not recorded? What are the stories surrounding this piece of art? As he asked these questions about these historical watercolors, he began to create his own body of ART in response. 

INSTALLING HIS IMAGES. In one display case, Daniel Boyd hangs the images he made concealing copies of British colonial art. The dots he used on the surface which are seen as a certain Aboriginal art style from the central desert of Australia serve a different function here. They obscure and illuminate. Daniel, himself, is from Cairns, Queensland, and lives in Sydney.

Taking copies of the watercolors and other iconic images of Australia, like Sydney Harbor and Captain Cook, he painted over them and then layered them with textured dots that dazzle and reflect light. He framed these obscured images in museum archival boxes. What information has been lost now? What new stories are being told in Daniel Boyd's images? More than twenty of these complex images are hung in a display case as part of his exhibit, "Up in Smoke Tour."

ARCHIVAL BOXES FORMERLY HOUSING HUMAN REMAINS. Daniel Boyd included these boxes in his exibit, "Up in Smoke Tour."

Next to those images and adding to the complexity of  Daniel Boyd's exhibition is a display case of discarded archival boxes that formerly housed human remains collected by the Natural History Museum. This collection of plain and unadorned boxes stacked unceremoniously is disturbing and demanding of thought. While doing his artist in residency at the museum, he has worked along with the anthropology department to find human remains of Australian Aboriginals and found a skull that came from his area of Queensland and is now working to get the skull returned to Australia.

Daniel Boyd's work is significant. He has made me rethink my own ability to look at an image and read that image honestly, deeply and widely. He has also made me realize my own sense of privilege thinking that my own ancestors' bones have been appropriately honored in burial instead of housed in a museum in a foreign country. His questions have heightened my awareness and left me disturbed. Isn't this the DUTY of ART and the WORK of a SPIRITUAL ART PILGRIM? Thank you Daniel Boyd.

That's COFFEE WITH HALLELUJAH. Soul Blog and tell me what your thoughts are about Daniel Boyd's work. Has this blog entry made you more thoughtful about ART and the STORY it TELLS?

BONE BOXES FROM DANIEL BOYD'S "UP IN SMOKE TOUR."

Please view this video and see what Daniel Boyd has to say!

SEEING WHAT'S NEXT: SOULING INTO FULL PLANETHOOD ON SUPER MOON NIGHT

SOUL SEEING ON THE NIGHT OF THE SUPER MOON. (art by Hallelujah Truth)

Hallelujah Pilgrims. Summer is in the air. Tonight (May 5, 2012) in Atlanta, Georgia, is the night of the SUPER MOON! For us SOJOURNERS traversing the UNIVERSE doing our SOUL WORK, the night offers kind intense illumination. Part of the exploration of the unknown is welcoming rare opportunities to SEE, really SEE where the SOUL is going. My questions to you DEAR PILGRIMS are these:


CAN WE PHYSICALLY SEE OUR SOULS? 
WHAT ILLUMINATION DO WE NEED FOR OBSERVATION?
WILL WE RECOGNIZE WHAT WE SEE?
WHAT COMES FIRST, KNOWLEDGE OR REVELATION?
IS ACTION OR REACTION REQUIRED?

GREETING THE UNKNOWN.  Souling takes us to places we don't immediately recognize as self reflections. Is it possible that all we see is manifested from our own interiority? If so, where am I now?

I will address these questions in this way--Let's toast to our eternal health! Drink and BE MERRY! BREATHE and EXHALE everything. EVERYTHING is precious and has something to teach us!


This practice of joyfully embracing what comes into our LIVES gives this PROMISE:


LIFE IS TO BE LIVED NOW!


As I enter the next stage of my life that I am calling FULL PLANETHOOD, I intend to do just that--LIVE! 


My full planethood is my expansion into the fullness of Hallelujah Truth! I am no longer orbiting the planets of my youthful adoration. Instead, I have broken the gravitational pull. Stay-tuned to Coffee with Hallelujah to share 15 minutes of creativity in my new planethood! Share your orbits with me!


PEACEFUL JOURNEY TO YOU ALL, EACH AND EVERYONE OF YOU!

SOULING INTO PLANTHOOD: A WAY TO LIVE ONE'S LIFE AND HEAL THE EARTH

SOULING INTO PLANETHOOD.The SOUL is more a process, than a thing, so Jeffrey Kiehl calls this process "SOULING." (Art by Hallelujah Truth)

Hallelujah for the SOUL and for all of us SOULS healing the EARTH! But what exactly is a SOUL and what is it in relation to a cure for global warming resulting in droughts, flooding, disease, and famine? Jeffrey Kiehl, a professor of atmospheric science and a Jungian analyst, has answers to both questions!

He believes that first we humans need to do some "SOULING," and in this way we get in touch with the nature or animal in ourselves. By being in touch with our inner animal, we would do everything within our human power to preserve life--ALL OF LIFE!

Listening to Dr. Kiehl lecture last night (April 28, 2012) at the Jung Society of Atlanta on the topic, "Sustaining Earth, Sustaining Soul," I learned a new way of talking about the SOUL. And Dr. Kiehl's words resonated with what I already know:

THE SOUL or SOULING is...

• a way of seeing deeply
• a direct experience of one's interiority
• an embracing of feelings and intuition
• and a recognition of interdependence

SEEING ONE'S OWN PLANETHOOD YET RECOGNIZING INTERDEPENDENCE.  I have been playing with ways to deeply experience my feelings and intuition in that deep place of "interiority." As I celebrate my own independent "planethood," it is an interesting challenge to live my life in respectful relation to ALL OTHER ASPECTS OF LIFE. 

So PILGRIMS, the more we LIVE, truly live, embracing our total selves--not just our material needs, but our immaterial needs, the more we feel connected the EARTH. We resonate with the EARTH when we experience the leaf that touches our arm as we brush by a plant near a sidewalk. We resonate with the EARTH when we listen to the sound of a bird call out our office windows. We resonate with the EARTH when we feel the freshness of the early morning air on our faces as we walk to our cars. It is that mysterious resonance between our SOULS and NATURE, if we allow ourselves to feel it that will HEAL the EARTH. This resonance falls into the realm of what I call SPIRIT. Or we can now call it SOULING. Once we are SOULING with the EARTH, we will surely have to become HER caretaker because in doing so we will be taking care of OURSELVES.


That's Coffee with Hallelujah. What SOULING will you do today PILGRIMS? Soul Blog with me!

SOULING WITH NATURE AT KNOWLEDGE CREEK, VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA 2009 (photo by Chiboogamoo,  Ichnologist and Husband Extraordinaire)

UPON FINISHING A SOUL TASK: WHO AM I NOW AFTER ILLUSTRATING THE (MIS)ADVENTURES OF MARIA THE HUTIA?

HOME AT LAST! Maria the Hutia returns home after a tumultuous journey at sea and being LOST. During the period of being separated from her home and all that is familiar, she makes new friends and engages their help to find her home--a pristine island where animals can live without intervention from humans. (art by Hallelujah Truth)

Hallelujah for the JOURNEY OF THE SOUL! The SOUL of Hallelujah Truth has pilgrimaged along with her Chiboogamoo's in the past 11 years and in doing so has grown volumes--up and down and sideways! As an artist befriending a scientist, I wanted to learn how to be with Chiboogamoo in his ichnological endeavors and still be HALLELUJAH. Becoming an illustrator for a children's story about an endangered animal in a threatened environment was one of the GREAT CHALLENGES I confronted along my way! Let me explain!

IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE FINGER PAINTER! When Sandy Voegeli asked me to illustrate Ron Shaklee's story about the young lost hutia, I was a finger painting, acrylic wielding visionary artist painting from my gut. This was the first image/painting I produced about Maria the Hutia's journey. It was done so that the children of San Salvador, Bahamas, who were participating in the first science field camp on the Gerace Research Centre could have t-shirts celebrating the story!

SCIENCE CAMP FOR THE CHILDREN OF SAN SALVADOR, BAHAMAS.  Ron Shaklee's Maria the Hutia was featured on the first science camp t-shirt in the form of RuthTruth's artwork. See me (now Hallelujah Truth) on the right, third row from the front, first person (I'm clapping my hands.) Sandy Voegeli, mastermind in the creation and realization of science camp is directly behind me. Sandy, having lived on the island for a total of eight years, knew that the children of San Salvador needed an opportunity to learn about the ocean and coral reefs that surround their island. The science camp on the Gerace Research Centre allowed the San Sal children to ride on the large field station vehicles  that they had grown up seeing going around their island. In addition, they used field station equipment to snorkel, studied about their precious environment in the classroom facilities, ate in the field station cafeteria, and when I was there, they painted a scene or animal from their surroundings on a canvas! In this photo, we are all proudly wearing the t-shirt with the colorful Maria the Hutia painting that is posted above. My images of Maria the Hutia evolved from there.

GENESIS OF THE ILLUSTRATOR, HALLELUJAH TRUTH


In the beginning was RUTHTRUTH, self-acclaimed Georgia visionary artist. She became the companion of a scientist who travelled the world in the company of other scientists. Initially, while much fun was to be had out in NATURE and during meals after FIELD WORK, I felt separate from the scientists. I did not possess their knowledge. Nor did I have a GOAL for being in the specified location. Therefore, I felt like an EXTRA on a movie set, drifting on the periphery, performing only when summoned, and of not much value.

FRIEND CELEBRATE OUR JOURNEY! 

BUT, then it occurred to me to BE THE ARTIST amongst the scientists even when not engaged in my artmaking--to WEAR the SOUL of RUTHTRUTH proudly and loudly. I would engage anyone I spoke with in a discussion of their CREATIVE SOUL...and I would SPEAK of mine. 


MAGIC HAPPENED. As it turned out, most scientists have large expansive minds; in fact, many are artists or intensive admirers of art. Geologists, paleontologists, biologists, botanists, geographers, etc. truly understand that ART informs their science and their SPIRITS (whatever spirit may be to a scientist). I STRUCK GOLD in BEING ME--my AUTHENTIC SELF!


TIME PROGRESSED and I went farther and further in my JOURNEY as an ARTIST. I determined that I needed to draw and set about drawing three images every day in micron pens. No mistakes were allowed. No erasing. I accepted every line my archival pen made. I made each drawing a success. I meditated during these drawings. I concentrated on the outer perimeter of my consciousness. I DREW and GREW. The JOURNEY of Maria the Hutia demanded it!

GREETINGS! When Maria arrives home, her parents run down to the shore to great her. Nothing like returning home. But remember Pilgrims, everything has been changed after the journey!

I LIVED on ISLAND TIME. In fact, I discovered a jacket that proclaimed this sentiment in a St. Simons Island gift shop along the Georgia coast, and every morning, I donned that jacket to create my three drawings. I was developing MY PRACTICE. It was my WAY to the DEEPER SENSE of SELF that I think is the purpose or meaning of LIFE.

LIVING ON ISLAND TIME. photo taken by Chiboogamoo on Jekyll Island 2011

The JOURNEY of drawing 27 images in micron pens and india ink has not been easy. I have suffered from doubt, quit several times, and felt inadequate. However, now "I've got peace like an ocean in my soul" (Elizabeth Mitchell, folk singer), because I allowed myself to fail and flounder but not indefinitely!


Instead, I gave birth to a new ME--HALLELUJAH TRUTH. The old ME, RuthTruth, still inhabits this new SELF. She is inside the TRUTH, just compartmentalized. The old me, like my name, RUTH TRUTH, is a little didactic and resisted the JOURNEY into not knowing. Yet, I desired a new way of BEING...something that only a multisyllabic name could honor. I tried on Arabella, Isabella, Hosanna, Hannah, and other "ah" sounding names until discovering HALLELUJAH!


My RENAMING solidified this JOURNEY of drawing, going deeper into the self, and recognizing the ME of now without restricting the ME of the FUTURE.

Listen to Elizabeth Mitchell sing, "I've Got Peace Like a River." The second stanza is "I've got peace like an ocean in my soul." We are all unique and meant to live this one life that is uniquely ours. My JOURNEY to self has been deeply informed by taking on the task of illustrating this children's story about Maria the Hutia. Thank you Ron and Sandy! How will you ALL travel along your PATH to GREATER KNOWING? Soul Blog with me at Coffee with Hallelujah!

ON BEING A SELF TAUGHT ILLUSTRATOR FOR THE LOVE OF THE ENVIRONMENT OF SAN SALVADOR, BAHAMAS

WHERE HAVE ALL THE BAHAMIAN HUTIAS GONE? (art by Hallelujah Truth) 

Hallelujah PILGRIMS! For the love of this beautiful EARTH which we inhabit, I have taught myself to draw images to illustrate Ron Shaklee's story, The (Mis)Adventures of Maria the Hutia. It is about the JOURNEY of a young Bahamian hutia who gets swept away from her safe home on a pristine island. She finds her rescue team in the form of caged animals at the Nassau zoo. With the promise that her precious undeveloped island could be a new home for them, she engages them in helping her find her way back to her family. But she must first educate them as to what a hutia is! 

When asked by the various Bahamian animals she meets along her JOURNEY, she responds with the following refrain:

 “We’re small, brown, furry rodents. We were once found all over the islands.”

 Each animal invariably asks,“What happened?”

Maria answers, “Man came. He hunted us with his animals. He destroyed our habitat. Now we’re only found on two small islands where no one ever goes.”

As an artist who was going to illustrate this story, I too had to find out what a hutia is! I learned that there is an abundance of Cuban hutias and that they are not endangered like the Bahamian ones. I found various images of Bahamian hutias on the internet and also thought Cuban ones would serve well as models. I would love for a scientist to tell me the distinct differences between the Bahamian and Cuban hutias. For me, I associated the hutia with an animal I had seen before--the groundhog!

The years have passed by rapidly since I was asked by Sandy Voegeli, who at the time was playing a major role to establish a nonprofit organization to preserve the natural life of San Salvador, Bahamas, to illustrate Ron Shaklee's story. I have been working on these images since 2008, and now, the time is coming to publish the story and the images must be finished. 


In the last three years, I have taken a CREATIVE JOURNEY along with Maria the Hutia! I have gone from painting acrylics on board directed only by an inner vision to drawing 27 black and white images of Maria's story on paper using micron pens and india ink--as well as visual references!


During this time, I have learned vast amounts about Bahamian natural life. I have travelled to the Bahamas, to the Gerace Research Centre to SEE the iguanas, tropic birds, coral reefs, and vastness of ocean and sky. I have scoured pages of the three volume Reef Set by Paul Humann and Ned Deloach. Sandy, a master diver, provided me with numerous photos of sea turtles, dolphins, spotted eagle rays, squid, corals, and many more profoundly beautiful sea images. My friend, Jacq Marie Jack, an artist, geologist, and world traveler, has been my angel mentor supplying ideas, references, and guidance. My husband, Chiboogamoo, has assisted me with his considerable artistic skills, and his mother Veronica informed me that it was God's will for me to illustrate this book!


FELLOW SOJOURNERS! The vast and glorious UNIVERSE has brought me to this place of discovery right here, right now. I am an ARTIST with CREATIVE FRIENDS. We TRAVEL together as we do our individual work. With great mystery our lives intertwine and expand beyond our wildest IMAGININGS.


Ron Shaklee has encouraged me that we can get The (Mis)Adventures of Maria the Hutia published by mid-summer! Wish us luck my FELLOW SOJOURNERS. Wishing you JOY on your JOURNEY. Soul Blog with me at Coffee with Halllelujah!

View this video to hear Ron Shaklee's very catchy song about Maria the Hutia's journey! It was recorded by children from the island of San Salvador and played all over the Bahamas on the Bahamian radio. I promise  you will be humming this song for days to come if you give it a listen!

ADDRESSING THE STRUGGLE THAT EXISTS WITHIN: THE RETELLING OF LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD AS RUA/WULF

RUA/WULF. A retelling of Little Red Riding Hood by Marium Khalid. (art by Hallelujah Truth)

Hallelujah PILGRIMS…have you seen the BIG BAD WOLF out of the corner of your eyes recently? Is it possible that he just rode by rapidly on a bicycle, or crept around the periphery of your yard, or peered in your window last night? What exists in YOUR SHADOWS?

BIG BAD WOLF. Is it possible you are being watched by something DARK and perhaps THREATENING?

Last night I JOURNEYED into a well-known story, one many of us had read to us when we were children—Little Red Riding Hood. But this adapted tale of Red Riding Hood, “RUA/WULF,” written and directed by Marium Khalid is NOT for children. Oh no! It addresses the STRUGGLE that EXISTS WITHIN and the resulting DARKNESS from the CONFUSION of a myriad of questions:

What desire should I follow?

What actions should I take to fulfill my desire?

What do I understand from the actions I took?

Are there multiple perspectives?

Are there options for other actions and understanding?

Is there a right way?

Who is right?

PILGRIMS is it possible that this CONFUSION expressed by both Rua (Red Riding Hood played by AC Smallwood) and Hemming (the Wolf played by Tim Batten) is JUST the GRIT of LIFE? The BRILLIANCE in the construction of this modern day fairy tale is that it allows us to travel in multiple directions (at one point the audience is divided into separate groups to witness the differing viewpoints of Rua and Hemming). Its characters ask multiple questions and finally leave us to conclude that our actions CANNOT BE REDUCED into the black and white simplicity of RIGHT AND WRONG.

RUA or RED RIDING HOOD HAS HER OWN DARKNESS TO DEAL WITH!

How delightful it is that both characters, Rua and Hemming, are equally good and bad and the entire spectrum inbetween—just like all of us PILGRIMS. It is the additional presence of a BIGGER DARKER WOLF lurking around the edges of the performance that expresses an even deeper TRUTH about our humanity. This alarming phantom reminds us of the DARKNESS that inhabits our psyches, which produces an abundant steady flow of fear and uncertainty that we must learn to manage.

WHAT DO I WANT? Rua, a burgeoning adolescent, knows it is time to venture out into the DARKNESS of her NEEDS and DESIRES no matter how FRIGHTENING it is!

We are all called at certain times in our lives to confront the BIGGER DARKER WOLF’s eerie persistent presence in order to STRETCH ourselves. Each of us, if we are brave enough, wages war with the UNKNOWN and as we make our choices and take action, we DEFINE ourselves.

Oddly, the Rua/Wulf billet and promotional video has the quotation:


 “No man is a wolf until he is made into one.” 


I would challenge the grammar or meaning of that statement. Written in passive voice, it is assigning the blame of  “becoming” a wolf to SOMETHING OTHER THAN THE SELF, whether it be another individual, a negative experience, or the machinery of society at large.

WE BECOME WHAT WE MAKE OF OURSELVES. It is our responsibility to make choices, make mistakes, learn, and continue living, no matter what.

PILGRIMS, I would charge that we “become” what we make of ourselves. We have the responsibility to craft the one unique life that becomes our destiny. This performance, Rua/Wulf is precisely about that FULFILLMENT OF MEETING OUR DESTINY and all of its frightening spectors in the guise of dark woods, wolves (human and phantom), adolscence, a life unlived, and the messiness of enacting decisions….How splendid is this LIFE! How frightening too! It is the GRIT in the JOURNEY that makes the PEARL!

That’s Coffee with Hallelujah! Soul Blog with me and share with me the grit that is making your pearl!

INTRODUCING MY NEW ART ASSISTANT--TAO! Help comes in all forms on the JOURNEY. Here my beloved feline inspects my painting of Rua and the Wulf!

AFTER NOTES

THE RUA/WULF JOURNEY TAKES PLACE AT THE GOAT FARM ARTS CENTER

While living in the burgeoning metropolis of Atlanta, Georgia, we PILGRIMS can disappear into another reality by going to THE GOAT FARM ART CENTER. The audience of Rua/Wulf traverse 12 acres of a Victorian era industrial complex to see the updated version of Little Red Riding Hood. To view good representative photos  of The Goat Farm, visit this blog. The performance begins at dusk, and with the extinguishing of the sun, the audience becomes participants or players in the DARKNESS.

MAGICAL SET DESIGN AND COSTUMES
Multiple artists collaborated to make the costumes and set designs for Rua/Wulf. So well-suited to the environment of The Goat Farm and and the Little Red Riding Hood story, these aspects of the production succeed in creating a unique experience that seems improbable to be repeated elsewhere with the same magic.


GloATL
While moving from site to site of Rua/Wulf on The Goat Farm for three hours, I had the opportunity to meet Lauri Stallings, dancemaker, and mastermind behind a beloved Atlanta dance company called GloATL, whose home is located on the 12-acre complex of The Goat Farm. Apparently, the performance concept of GloATL is similar to that of Rua/Wulf in that the dance performers interact with the audience and creatively respond to the interactions. 


ACKNOWLEDGMENTS: I would like to thank Lesly Fredman and Jesse Merle Bathrick for being the forerunners in attending the performance of Rua/Wulf at The Goat Farm and alerting all of us members of the Artist Conference Network to attend! Special thanks go to my Judith Barber, who introduced me to The Goat Farm and its enchanting grounds and buildings before the performance and discussed this morality tale with me afterwards. The ideas you read above resulted from our lively reflection over a glass of wine at the cafe of The Goat Farm. 

CREATING WITH THE FORCE OF YOUTHFUL FREEDOM: INVENTIVELY SPEAKING!

HALLELUJAH TRUTH EYES AND EARS. I see and hear you. If you see and hear me, tell me your story. I am telling you mine. So it is the way we are meant to live, sharing our stories around the fire of our hearts, now the internet in this soul blogging world. (art by me, Hallelujah Truth)

Hallelujah PILGRIMS! "Enjoy the decade you are in now," says my love, one of my beloved mentors, the one who at this very moment is holding my ear and whispering TRUTHS to me--Clarissa Pinkola Estes. I am in LOVE once again. How grand it is to listen to someone speak and know that you are meant to learn what they have to give you! How glorious it is to KNOW, TRULY KNOW that we have a SOUL COMMUNITY out there, out here in the ethersphere of the internet. 


On April 16th, 2012, only a few days ago, a Russian blogger featured some of my art on her blog. How mysterious and odd and strange and wonderful is the blogger, dressed like a gypsy holding a pink rose or poppy all aglow would find my work, go through multiple old blog entries to choose the ones she liked! She has given me a gift of "attention"! I feel as though my SOUL has been witnessed from afar. HOW DID SHE FIND ME? In this huge, magnificent WORLD? Ah the mysterious ways of the SOUL! Are we truly destined to meet certain others in our lives? I would love to hear back from this Russian blogger!

I AM HERE! This is my universe and I am seeking like minded souls as I look into what this LIFE has to offer. 

This morning when I coached with my Artist Conference Network partner, I took a stand to create with the freedom of boys playing with bottle rockets on the American Fourth of July! I draw with the ambition of exploding neurons and popping synapses and colliding with YOU, DEAR SOUL PILGRIM in a fantastical dance celebrating the universe! 

BETWEEN BOUNDARIES.  As I draw and imagine myself in relation to you and to another aspect of myself, I envision transversing boundaries. I am eternally youthful, not regretting any "gathering of years" as Clarissa Pinkola Estes speaks of aging.

May all of you, DEAR PILGRIMS create, recreate, and celebrate whatever age you are now...our LIVES are so precious! That's Coffee with Hallelujah! 

WHOOSH!