'Willydah', Narromine, 11 July 2024 Willydah, Narromine NSW This post documents the first field recording trip to the farm that the SOIL+AiR creative future landscapes project will be based at for the next year. SOIL+AiR is a creative rural research residency aiming to explore the rural landscapes and communities of the Narromine Shire in Central West NSW, …
Are the places we live and work so uninhabitable, so disconnected from the natural world, that our only option is to reproduce sounds that keep us sane and healthy? Land once cleared for grazing is now home to a wind farm on Wiradjuri Country, Central West NSW (2022) As I’ve been working on my upcoming …
One chilly morning in April, I rose before dawn to listen to a conversation hosted by Colorado College (USA) on Environmental Philosophy and the Ethics of Attention. I was prompted to register for this international webinar because of my interest in how I might dig more deeply into the issues and themes that have been bait …
Walking and listening near the Wambuul Macquarie River near Dubbo (Wiradjuri Country), April 2024 Walking with intent or simply for joy is a sensory experience of connection with each other and our surrounds in an act that encourages self-awareness. My earliest memories of walking are of holding my grandmother’s hand as we wandered across bare, …
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Kim V. Goldsmith. February 2024. After a couple of days of late summer temperatures in the high 30s, I was looking forward to my weekend walk with my dog, in ‘walking temperatures’. If I was going to put in an order for a day like this it'd be something in the high teens, with a …
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