Artists Looking At Animals

Douglas Breault is an artist living in Massachusetts. Sound effects in this episode thanks to FreeSound users pogotron (CC Sampling Plus 1.0) and lasdimot (CC-BY 4.0), and Singing Insects of North America (SINA) (CC BY-SA 4.0). Image by Wikimedia Commons user Terry Priest (CC-BY-SA 4.0).

Elly Vadseth is an artist in Norway: “When I swim now in the fjord, I can feel these beings hitting my body, and gliding over my body, and that’s a very new feeling.” 

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Sofía Córdova is an artist in Oakland: "The part where we see them and we behold them and we witness them is important, but it’s only important in as much as we prioritize our perspective as THE perspective on the planet." 

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Loretta Park is an artist in Boston: "I think it’s really interesting that there’s so many mixed emotions about this one animal."

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Jessica Caldas is an artist living in Florida: “She was walking and moving before she really could communicate with us verbally, but she could move, and she could move fast, and she was strong, and she’s grabbing at my body all the time, and that was really intense for me because I started to feel like an animal.”

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Kristen Mills is an artist living in Vermont: “It’s astounding how huge they are, and how elusive they are for how big they are. I’m sure I’ve walked by moose on the trail, and I can’t hear them or see them, and that to me is most fascinating.”

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Sheida Soleimani is an artist living in Providence, R.I.: “I’m kind of drawing likenesses between human bodies and animal bodies. Animals can’t communicate for themselves, but oftentimes a lot of people can’t either.”

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Ebitenyefa Baralaye is an artist living in Detroit: "There’s a certain kind of power in naming things and inviting others to understand things, but also a prerogative or an influence that could be seen as being sort of overriding identity."

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Devi Laskar is a writer living in Cupertino, California: "It was just so different. And I don’t think I would’ve become an artist or a writer if hadn’t been exposed to all these different thoughts and all these different people."

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Sandrine Schaefer is an artists living in Boston: “I’m always trying to be like, 'how can I be human and also be in community with my non-human neighbors?'”

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