Art as Act of Communion with Nature Olana Light @olanalight is a multidisciplinary artist. Through photography and performance art, she interrogates the relationship between humanity and the natural world. In this Interview, Light shares with our Culture Editor @leila.elzabri how her creative pr
The Soul Comes from the Sea The origin of the word soul is suspected to have originally meant ‘coming from or belonging to the sea’ from Proto-Germanic *saiwaz (sea). Our bodies are formed with the water of our mother womb, from the egg to the seed, fluids provide moisture that is crucial fo
While man becomes the inner part of the landscape, the landscape becomes the inner world of man. In the midst of a storm within, Stéphanie Labé found healing in nature. Listening to and observing the quiet voice and tenderness of the natural world, she walked barefoot through forests and swam in
When it comes to holidays, there’s no such thing as impact-free travel. So how can we be better tourists this summer? What does it really mean to travel well in an age of heatwaves, climate anxiety, and overtourism? As temperatures climb to 39°C and the urge to escape builds, we’re asked to
What does it mean to remember who we were before the world told us who to be? We are born with a sense of oneness. In early infancy, there is no separation, no clear boundary between self and other, between body and environment. But as we grow, the ego begins to form. Boundaries solidify. The world
What do these metaphors reveal about how we feel protest in our bodies? “There is something deeply ecological in the way bodies come together in public space, like a murmuration, a tide, or a mycelial network.” As Serbia swelters through the heat of summer, a different kind of pressure builds
Merriam-Webster defines cobwebs as “tangles of the silken threads of a spiderweb usually covered with accumulated dirt and dust.” Ever since I can remember, even as a 4-year-old growing up in Bombay in the 1980s, the hallmark of a modern, clean house was one that was free of cobwebs. I saw my
Indigenous people are at the forefront of conserving biodiversity. Their skills, knowledge, and practices offer essential lessons in communal living with the more-than-human world. This is a model we desperately need to confront the unfolding climate crisis. Despite this, their stories have often be
As If We Weren’t on Fire a golden shovel after “Barn Burning” by Kristin Bock way too far out into the fields of the west, where the truest religion is smoke a fire still burns a ghost walks up to a mare & as the ghost walked up the mare began to rise up […]
Do seasons have memories of their own? Recent research suggests that monsoons may possess a kind of memory, switching on and off between dry and wet seasons. Science is catching up to what poetry and myth have long intuited: that weather, like us, remembers. For centuries, poets saw in it the dram