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Power of Awe podcast with Evgenia Emets
How do we actively work with the crisis of imagination and use this opportunity to invite communities into co-creation for the long-term?
How can we include nature as an active co-creator at every level of contemporary art?
Something beautiful landing, as Evgenia Emets is preparing for Art, Nature, Ecology San Francisco Biennale by Arts Humanitas 501(c)(3) founded by Silvie S. Hibdon next April.
Together with Stu Nolan we spoke about Power of Awe in the context of creating a thousand year perspective of connecting humans and nature.
We are calling in land stewards and partners across California (and eventually, across the United States) in an invitation to co-create the Eternal Forest movement!
In this conversation, we discussed the role of community in challenging the status quo, the relationship between time and today’s ecological crises, and what it means to remember where we come from.
We explored the questions:
How can art become something woven into the land, rather than placed upon it?
What changes when nature becomes an active co-creator, not simply a subject?
How do we understand time and and what shifts when we decide to work with a deeper - forest time?
We touched on shifting baselines, and how easily we forget what ecological abundance once looked like where forests have been destroyed. And what we can do to invite imagination and co-creation.
Thank you Stu Nolan so much for your questions and hosting this conversation on The Power of Awe podcast.
You can listen or watch video HERE
Plant Initiative podcast with Evgenia Emets
This conversation explores Eternal Forest as both an ecological project and a cultural practice: a living network of forest sanctuaries imagined across a thousand-year horizon. We speak about listening to land, plant sentience, collective memory, and the role of art and language in restoring our capacity for relationship with the more-than-human world. At its heart is a shift from asking how we can manage or repair nature to asking how we might become participants in its flourishing.
What changes when we stop asking what we want from the land, and begin asking what the land is asking of us?
Watch on Youtube
Rewilding Time in Meander Wildness Issue
Offering practices of ‘rewilding time’ - a journey from self to expanded self: home, land, community, more-than-human kin, intergenerational belonging.
Practices you can do every day, restoring natural cycles in your life.
Available via MEANDER
The Wisdom of Fire via Sofia Batalha
At a time when so many places across the world are on fire, destroying forests, habitats, homes and generations of memory, this article by Sofia Batalha is a poignant reminder that fire is not only a force to fear or suppress, but a relationship we have forgotten how to tend. It asks what it might mean to recover a wiser relationship with fire, water and land, and with our responsibility to all that remains. Drawing on Portuguese folklore, it asks what fire can teach us about grief, belonging, responsibility, and the long work of restoring relationship with the living world.
‘Fire devours because we have forgotten how to ‘plant water.’
Planting water means caring for the land so that rain can enter, linger, and seep in—nourishing roots, fungi, springs, and groundwater—rather than running off quickly over bare, compacted, and exhausted soil. When we tear down hedgerows, drain wetlands, divert watercourses, simplify ecosystems, and abandon the small, communal acts of retention and care, we lose more than just water. We lose moisture, shade, diversity, time, and fire resistance. The landscape no longer holds water, and everything becomes fuel.’
Read the full article on Sofia Batalha Substack
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