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Olivia
Aug 19, 20201 min read
Earth Art Talk: discussing embodiment, song and co-arising
I was delighted to speak recently with Narelle Carter-Quinlan for her Earth Art Talks series. I found it to be such a rich and...
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Olivia
Apr 30, 20202 min read
31 days to deepen your connection with place
There are moments when we can choose to step from one world to the next. And the world we may choose to step into is the one where live,...
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Olivia
Apr 22, 20202 min read
Birdsong
“I don’t know anything about consciousness. I just try to teach my students how to hear the birds sing.” Shunryu Suzuki Roshi. I sit in...
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Olivia
Apr 22, 20204 min read
Do we need a new story for the world? Or a new song?
“A dangerous monster threatens our community. One man takes it on himself to kill the beast and restore happiness to the kingdom…” This...
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Olivia
Mar 21, 20202 min read
View from the Ark
I wrote this poem at the end of February 2020, when 200% of the average rainfall in the UK in February had fallen. It seemed like the...
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Olivia
Mar 8, 20201 min read
My artwork 'Threshold' in Mill Valley, CA exhibition
I am delighted that my artwork 'Threshold' was selected for a group show at the George Lawson Gallery in Mill Valley, California. It is...
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Olivia
Feb 15, 20201 min read
Listening to trees in Amazonia
Listening to trees in the Amazon in Ecuador with Gordon Hempton
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Olivia
Aug 18, 20194 min read
The dance of the unseen
This blog was first published on the Explorer X website . We are deep in the Ecuadorian Amazon, staying with the Cofan people in their...
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Olivia
Jul 16, 20196 min read
"Nobody sees a flower really" - my artist's talk at BigCi, Australia
Because if we don’t see flowers, we often don’t see trees either. In my time at this residency, I came across the term ‘plant blindness’.
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Olivia
Jul 16, 20193 min read
The Jaya Sri Maha Bodhi tree, Sri Lanka
The Jaya Sri Maha Bodhi tree, in Anuradhapura, is the reason that I chose to visit Sri Lanka. It is the oldest tree recorded to be planted
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Olivia
Mar 14, 20193 min read
First stop: India – Or in which I discover that my first tree is the banyan tree
It’s now been 25 days since I set out from Helsinki to Puducherry, landing in Chennai. I spent the first three nights in Puducherry,...
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Olivia
Mar 14, 20196 min read
In Search of the Canary Tree: A book review and introduction to five themes for my book
At the start of my own journey to the trees, I read ‘In Search of the Canary Tree’. This book is Dr Lauren Oakes’ account of how she...
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Olivia
Mar 14, 20191 min read
Listening to my little voice
Whilst I was still in New York, I read a post on Terri Connellan's Quiet Writing website which resonated with me about listening to my...
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Olivia
Feb 6, 20192 min read
The music of deep ecology
I sit by the side of a pond in the Catksills, upstate New York. The pond is in a valley created by a meteor crater. The meteor landed...
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