Plants and fungi are sources of ancient knowledge, spiritual nourishment, and bodily sustenance. As primordial vestiges, natural forms are blueprints and points of genesis. How can a deeply rooted perspective resituate our understandings of these environments and cosmologies?
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On Old-Growth
Current Issue: On Old-Growth
Lêna Bùi
on Building Connections, Rabbit Holes of Research and the Many Lives of Trees
Zai Tang
on Synaesthesia, Making Field Recordings and Listening to the Composition of Nature
Madhvi Subrahmanian
on Raw Earth, Working with Limitations and the Beauty of Shadows
Syaiful Garibaldi
on Foraging for Mushrooms, Ecologies of Connection and Coming Full Circle
Jason Lim on Dualities, Seasonal Cycles, and Embodying the Kōan as Methodology
on Building Connections, Rabbit Holes of Research and the Many Lives of Trees
Zai Tang
on Synaesthesia, Making Field Recordings and Listening to the Composition of Nature
Madhvi Subrahmanian
on Raw Earth, Working with Limitations and the Beauty of Shadows
Syaiful Garibaldi
on Foraging for Mushrooms, Ecologies of Connection and Coming Full Circle
Jason Lim on Dualities, Seasonal Cycles, and Embodying the Kōan as Methodology
Featured Excerpt
“The trees themselves have their own way of observation and thinking that also allows me to imagine something beyond the human. I don't mean this anthropomorphically, but rather to try and ‘phytomorphize’ myself ー to think like a plant.”
Read the full interview with Lêna Bùi here.
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On Old-Growth
Episode 4, 9 February 2021Plants and fungi are sources of ancient knowledge, spiritual nourishment, and bodily sustenance. As primordial vestiges, natural forms are blueprints and points of genesis. This episode unravels the thought process behind the newest issue on Object Lessons Space. How can a deeply rooted perspective resituate our understandings of these environments and cosmologies?
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