This month’s post is made up of two social media posts shared in July—both about listening. The first was written in response to World Listening Day on 18 July, and the second, a post written by UK-based regenerative culture practitioner, environmental activist, and artist Bridget McKenzie on Medium on 21 July. What’s it mean to …
Listening is a whole of body experience. A couple of years ago I sat on a panel at the Artists in Volatile Landscapes Regional Futures symposium at Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre in Sydney to talk about how we might listen better. To underline the urgent need to listen better, I was particularly keen to get …
A microscope view (200x magnification) of a worm in the soils on the farm, ‘Willydah’. Image: Kim V. Goldsmith ...soils not only speak to us, but can be great subjects for art and music...soils truly are sexy. - Dr David Eldridge I’ve been puposely listening to the sound of soils for the past three years. …
In August 2024, as I was preparing for my spring SOIL+AiR creative rural research residency sessions on farm, I wrote about listening to one of the paddock trees for a Meta* post. Going into the New Year, I thought it worth revisiting. I had the privilege of sitting close to a Kurrajong tree in a …
Wambuul Macquarie River, Dubbo NSW Australia On a walk around my local river over the weekend, I was listening to podcasts* I rarely have time for, enthralled by not only the Scottish accents and fluent speakers of Scottish Gàidhlig—a language I’ve been learning for several months, but ideas of connection to land, language shaped by …
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