Earth Art Talk: discussing embodiment, song and co-arising
I was delighted to speak recently with Narelle Carter-Quinlan for her Earth Art Talks series. I found it to be such a rich and...
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Olivia
- Apr 30, 2020
- 2 min
31 days to deepen your connection with place
There are moments when we can choose to step from one world to the next. And the world we may choose to step into is the one where live,...
Olivia
- Apr 22, 2020
- 2 min
Birdsong
“I don’t know anything about consciousness. I just try to teach my students how to hear the birds sing.” Shunryu Suzuki Roshi. I sit in...
Olivia
- Apr 22, 2020
- 4 min
Do we need a new story for the world? Or a new song?
“A dangerous monster threatens our community. One man takes it on himself to kill the beast and restore happiness to the kingdom…” This...
Olivia
- Mar 21, 2020
- 2 min
View from the Ark
I wrote this poem at the end of February 2020, when 200% of the average rainfall in the UK in February had fallen. It seemed like the...
Olivia
- Mar 8, 2020
- 1 min
My artwork 'Threshold' in Mill Valley, CA exhibition
I am delighted that my artwork 'Threshold' was selected for a group show at the George Lawson Gallery in Mill Valley, California. It is...
Olivia
- Feb 15, 2020
- 1 min
Listening to trees in Amazonia
Listening to trees in the Amazon in Ecuador with Gordon Hempton
Olivia
- Aug 18, 2019
- 4 min
The dance of the unseen
This blog was first published on the Explorer X website . We are deep in the Ecuadorian Amazon, staying with the Cofan people in their...
Olivia
- Jul 16, 2019
- 6 min
"Nobody sees a flower really" - my artist's talk at BigCi, Australia
Because if we don’t see flowers, we often don’t see trees either. In my time at this residency, I came across the term ‘plant blindness’.
Olivia
- Jul 16, 2019
- 3 min
The Jaya Sri Maha Bodhi tree, Sri Lanka
The Jaya Sri Maha Bodhi tree, in Anuradhapura, is the reason that I chose to visit Sri Lanka. It is the oldest tree recorded to be planted
Olivia
- Mar 14, 2019
- 3 min
First stop: India – Or in which I discover that my first tree is the banyan tree
It’s now been 25 days since I set out from Helsinki to Puducherry, landing in Chennai. I spent the first three nights in Puducherry,...
Olivia
- Mar 14, 2019
- 6 min
In Search of the Canary Tree: A book review and introduction to five themes for my book
At the start of my own journey to the trees, I read ‘In Search of the Canary Tree’. This book is Dr Lauren Oakes’ account of how she...
Olivia
- Mar 14, 2019
- 1 min
Listening to my little voice
Whilst I was still in New York, I read a post on Terri Connellan's Quiet Writing website which resonated with me about listening to my...
Olivia
- Feb 6, 2019
- 2 min
The music of deep ecology
I sit by the side of a pond in the Catksills, upstate New York. The pond is in a valley created by a meteor crater. The meteor landed...