Land Pod: Conversations with Creatives

Morgan Kulas & Land Art Collective

Land Pod: Conversations with Creatives is a digital weaving—connecting and engaging with artists who embody regenerative ways of making and living. Through these conversations, we strengthen our collective capacity to heal, to imagine, and to kindle new ways of being in partnership with Land, Sea, and Sky. Dedicated to nurturing bonds between people and the planet, Land Pod offers sonic musings on the nature of creativity—a space to gently nourish, restore, and inspire through dialogue. If you enjoy what you hear, please consider leaving a five-star review.

Episodes

  1. Season I Artist Highlight: Vulnerability, and Collaboration in Photography with Luke Spencer.

    10/25/2023

    Season I Artist Highlight: Vulnerability, and Collaboration in Photography with Luke Spencer.

    From the teachings of his Grandfather, Luke Spencer came to know the gifts of nature; its lessons, its care, and its warmth to heal. Watching him at a knee-height age in his worn Dickies safety shoes tending and nurturing the tomatoes, runner beans, and peppers in his greenhouse and running down the garden path with them fresh in a brown paper bag to gift to Nanny for her casserole, Luke experienced the gift of reciprocity; that we can heal and nurture nature, as much as it heals and nurtures us. It's these affectionate memories Luke comes back to on longs walks along the South Coast of England, where he engages with the sensory experience of being within the world and wild, of being grounded within the present moment to experience the joy of all beings micro and macro, and to embrace emotion with compassion and loving kindness.  Through experiencing the difficulties that anxiety can bring within daily life, walking in nature provided a way of inviting these emotions in, to sit with them sheltered by the trees for a while, to respect and honour them, rather than to push them away. Acknowledging like the changing of the seasons their impermanence and embracing their toughness through tenderness. In his creative practice Luke centres these personal experiences of communing with nature. He looks to engage with our sensory relationship with nature through a curiosity of how mindfulness approaches, such as somatic dance, and regenerative methods can benefit our health and connection to the Earth. As well as providing a space for difficult emotions such as anxiety to be better understood and eased, and to be given a place for emotions to be heard and healed. It is this intertwining of science, spirit and story that is present throughout Luke's creativity. Through still and moving image, sound, and installation, he explores how being in nature in the words of Robin Wall Kimmerer; "can be a medicine for our broken relationship with the Earth, a pharmacopeia of healing stories that allows us to imagine a relationship in which people and land are good medicine for each other."

    39 min
  2. Season I Artist Highlight: Elie Porter Trubert on Decolonizing Walking + Ephemeral Sculpture

    06/21/2023

    Season I Artist Highlight: Elie Porter Trubert on Decolonizing Walking + Ephemeral Sculpture

    Elie Porter Trubert is a New Jersey artist who works across a variety of media including sculpture, installation, audio, and photography. She is driven by a deep connection to nature, concern for the environment, and an interest in non-traditional art spaces. She has developed an ongoing contemplative walking practice that involves the creation of ephemeral, site specific sculptural works assembled from gathered natural materials. These pieces allude to impermanence, interconnectedness, and attunement. She creates “circle meditations” during her walks and leaves them for human and more-than-human others to find. Ultimately they will be washed or blown away, or changed by natural processes. She documents her ephemeral pieces using photography and video and has been exploring the role of those media in the work. In recognition of her positionality, Elie began a “re-gifting” practice of returning what she had previously taken in an attempt to undo the damage and potential violence of those actions. Going back in time in a sense, she creates work using materials sourced over many years. The resulting pieces are offered back in apology and in an expression of gratitude. Going forward, in terms of using materials sourced from nature in her work, Elie is developing and internalizing a process and approach for a walking-with practice with the goal of fostering a relationship with the more-than-human that is healing, consensual, and reciprocal. A long-time nonprofit arts leader, Elie led The Center for Contemporary Art in Bedminster, New Jersey until last year. Her work has been exhibited widely, most recently at Sala752 in Zaczernie, Poland and ASC Gallery in London, England. She has a BA Studio Art from Kenyon College and is an MFA candidate at the University of New Mexico.

    49 min

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Land Pod: Conversations with Creatives is a digital weaving—connecting and engaging with artists who embody regenerative ways of making and living. Through these conversations, we strengthen our collective capacity to heal, to imagine, and to kindle new ways of being in partnership with Land, Sea, and Sky. Dedicated to nurturing bonds between people and the planet, Land Pod offers sonic musings on the nature of creativity—a space to gently nourish, restore, and inspire through dialogue. If you enjoy what you hear, please consider leaving a five-star review.