The art of co-existence
The art of co-existence explores the human relationship to all life on earth. We invite artists, designers, scientists and creative thinkers for deep conversations grounded in wonderment. Together we explore what it means to be part of a natural system, and how we can transform our anthropocentric minds to a more symbiotic approach of life on this planet.
The art of co-existence
#5: We Can Dream and Create Deep Time Forests into Our Land - Evgenia Emets
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For episode #5 we invited Evgenia Emets: a visual artist and founder of Eternal Forest, who believes the land is a sentient being with its own dream. And that if we learn to listen, it will tell us exactly what it needs.
🪨 Her starting point is deep time. In her latest artwork a fossilized tree inspired the question: if forests once covered this land, what stops us from dreaming them back into existence? Evgenia explains how art can play an important role in exploring and understanding deep time and forest time.
🌳 We also unpack her vision for Eternal Forest which she founded with an ambition to create 1.000 forest sanctuaries for 1.000 years.
“If we don’t dream 1.000 years, who will?”
📚 The Overstory by Richard Powers
🐚 Evgenia’s souvenir for you: explore how to live in forest time. Find an old growth forest. Observe. What is esthetically and emotionally there? Notice how it feels different from young plantation forests. It might change your life…
Find more information on Evgenia's website, on her YouTube channel @EvgeniaEmets and visit www.eternalforest.earth
Hosted by: Daphne Frühmann
Editing: Axel Frühmann
Music: Mark Oomen
Instagram: @theartofcoexistence
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