“The curiosity that helps you build #nature literacy, that literacy of your natural environment, the power that comes with being able to name the things around you is familiarity. Familiarity is what makes home,” says Hashveenah Manoharan.
“Comfort in nature is universal. And if nature is your home, you'll always be home.”
#art #drawing #illustration #botany #culture #rewilding #rewildingartsprize
https://www.rewildingmag.com/the-scientist-who-tells-stories-through-botanical-illustration/
“Some of the first printed materials were botanical books, teaching people about medicine and what’s growing around them,” Cerman says.
“It’s such an ancient thing, that we’ve always needed to know what’s growing around us. We need to know what’s alive.”
#rewilding #RewildingArtsPrize #ecology #plants #nature #britishcolumbia
https://www.rewildingmag.com/laara-cerman-relationship-with-flora/
“Art has the capacity to integrate multiple complex ideas in a more experiential, narrative, emotional way,” says Natasha Lavdovsky.
“It can shift people’s perspective in ways that data can’t.”
It's new newsletter day! We're talking about lawns and meadows, the #RewildingArtsPrize, gardening for insects and #NoMowMay. Check it out >> https://www.rewildingmag.com/one-yard-at-a-time/
“I have a tendency to work with the idea of ‘more than human,’” says #RewildingArtsPrize winner Khadija Baker.
Art has the power to softly push the idea of living with intentionality. “It reminds us of our humanity, of the Earth.”
https://www.rewildingmag.com/khadija-baker-finds-hope-in-plants/
“I am part of the environment and the environment is part of me," says Anishinaabe artist Amber Sandy, one of the winners of the #RewildingArtsPrize. "I can’t separate the two.”
Read more about Sandy's #LandBack bag, made from birch bark and home-tanned moose and deer hide, and what it took for her to make it >>
#rewilding #conservation #indigenousart
https://www.rewildingmag.com/amber-sandy-land-back-bag/
“There was a matching that happened. People would find a plant on the wall and then try to find it in the big installation,” says McCavour, who likened it to the experience of learning about a new plant and then joyfully discovering it out in the wild.
“It brings you in to seeing your environment differently. My hope is that people would also do that as they moved into the larger world.”
Read our profile of #RewildingArtsPrize winner Amanda McCavour >> https://www.rewildingmag.com/amanda-mccavour-suspended-landscapes/
"Tate completed 20 sketches in all, each in some way mimicking, concentrating or intensifying the natural processes on which the local species depend.
"One collected rainwater and snowmelt into a stone basin for any and all to drink. Another made use of a snagged spruce tree to concentrate moisture on the ground beneath, keeping it shady and damp for fungi."
Read more about #RewildingArtsPrize winner Justin Tyler Tate and his work >> https://www.rewildingmag.com/justin-tyler-tate-post-anthropocene-architecture/
“It was exciting to see how artists are interpreting the theme of #rewilding and how their love for the earth is expressed through their art practice,” says juror Christi Belcourt.
“Now, more than ever, we need the power of art to move people to start taking action and better care of the world around us.”
Meet the winners of the inaugural #rewildingartsprize >> https://www.rewildingmag.com/rewilding-arts-prize-winners/
Photo: "Moss Chair" by Rewilding Arts Prize winner Natasha Lavdovsky. Photo courtesy Natasha Lavdovsky.
Intergenerational knowledge has been at the crux of Shiwak's work and Inuit craft in general – she’s an artist because her mother taught her to sew, and her mother learned from her own mother.
“Going back in time to bring back what we used to do is something that's really important,” she says.
“Moving forward is okay, but we would also like to go back to reconnect to things that we have lost.”
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