What does it mean to truly witness a landscape? Journalist and artist Sarah Gilman joins us to discuss the intersection of visual art and environmental reporting. From the Harding Icefield in Alaska to the redwoods of California, we explore developing a "tuning fork" for storytelling, the ethics of representation, and how to narrate ecological resilience in a time of climate doom.

https://sarahmgilman.com/

Alaskan Tribes and Activists Are Ready to Resist Ambler Road, Again

Studying seabirds, the sentinels of the ocean

South America's Otherworldly Seabird

In this episode, we announce this academic year's Doig Center theme— “The West as Palimpsest"—and the programs this fall that this theme will entail.

This episode features Ben Cosgrove, the composer of Wrinkles in the Map's theme music. Ben is an American composer and multi-instrumentalist whose work explores the intersection of sound and place. He's drawn to landscapes that aren’t traditionally grandiose and majestic but rather opaque and mysterious–the shadows lurking around a corner, the uneasy way the light falls on a hillside while a storm blows the grass sideways, the ever-changing sand spits of a coastline. It’s here, in these places that resist easy definition, where we are sometimes most attuned and present to the world around us–and to the interior landscapes of our experience of it. In this conversation, we talk about the power of music to say things that words perhaps cannot, the power of witnessing new places as integral to the creative process, and why his songs don’t have lyrics.

https://www.bencosgrove.com/

Songs heard in this episode:

15:09 Break

24:46 Aubade

33:06 Salt

39:07 Brinckerhoff

43:45 Glass