Desire Lines

Scott Roe (aka Boohai) is the the creator of a pioneering micro-nation, a deep ecologist, musician and visual artist living off-grid in the wild Welsh hills. Music has been part of his life since an early age, and in the past he ran an independent record label and PR company for creative projects. In his ecology work, Scott is founder of a woodland rewilding nature reserve and volunteer program, blending creativity with hands-on environmental action.  Tune in for a conversation about creative citizenship, and artful ways to rethink borders and belonging.

The music featured in this episode is the track "I Know You Know" by Boohai.

www.bronyraur.com


https://www.facebook.com/groups/bronyraurcommunity/

Boohai on spotify

Join Emily for a winter wander around Froncysyllte churchyard. Walking interludes are short meditative sound journeys created using sounds from particular walks. These soundscapes are best experienced with headphones.

In this episode, Emily talks with Gabriela Blandy. Gabriela is an award-winning writer, life coach and shamanic practitioner, and the founder of the Wild Muse nature writing prize, which celebrates writing born from deep encounters with the natural world. Her research and coaching focuses on the idea of ‘safe creativity’, which supports writers and artists to move beyond trauma and conditioning and create from the wild intelligence within.

https://gabrielablandy.org
Instagram @wildmuseprize
https://gabrielablandy.substack.com

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Hi friends. This is a short interlude from me, Emily Wilkinson, creator and producer of Desire Lines Podcast.

You may have noticed that things went a bit quiet afterseries one. Desire Lines is a slow media project, and we’ve been taking a break before bringing you another series of creative conversations.

 Series one saw some truly magical exchanges take place, andwe have some great guests lined up already for series two. These include writer and Wild Muse Prize creator Gabriela Blandy, Independent Nation builder and musicianScott Roe, and trauma-informed strength coach Jo Hazell Watkins. We’ll also be featuring some walking interludes, recorded outdoors.

That’s it for now, We look forward to bringing you moreepisodes of Desire Lines soon. Stay tuned.

Walkspace (walkspace.uk) is a West Midlands-based co-operative of artists, writers, psychogeographers, photographers, creative practitioners and walkers. Walkspace exists to bring together artists and creative practitioners in the region who use walking as part of their practice. We aim to create a community of mutual support and collaboration, working as a co-operative collective to support the creation of new work.

In this episode, Emily speaks with fellow Walkspace members Rachel Henaghan and Andy Howlett on the theme of walking as storytelling.

Links

Full transcript available here: https://share.descript.com/view/lMW6F2jYtMx

https://walkspace.uk/

Instagram @walkspacewm

https://www.rachelhenaghan.co.uk/

https://andyhowlett.co.uk/

https://emilywilkinson.net/

...kruse is a neurodivergent, autistic creative based in Herefordshire UK, who makes work exploring relationships to landscape, the natural world and to each other. They explore what is unseen, the ephemeral, transient and ever changing. Kruse write about the solitaries, the hermits and wanderers and those who see the world sideways. They also work as a mentor for neurodivergent artists.

Episode transcript here: https://share.descript.com/view/TkaYUZQAl1w

References

https://www.krusework.info/

Directionsgreat film (part of Pathwalking residency for Vital Capacities)

AuTCRONE Repository: https://autcrone.blogspot.com/

https://www.instagram.com/___kruse/

https://www.lonewomeninflashesofwilderness.com/

Tanya Raabe Webber is a visual artist and self-defined disabled creative. She is a disability arts activist and artistic director for UK charity Sense. In this episode, Tanya and Emily talk access, landscape and sensory practice.

Transcript: https://share.descript.com/view/yE2XuXazbsb

https://www.tanyaraabewebber.com
https://www.instagram.com/tanyasartstudios
http://www.facebook.com/tanya.raabe

 Ruth is a shamanic practitioner and soul guide working with nature, spirits, metaphor, and healing. She is very interested in these changing times we are living in, and evolving trauma-based narratives into positive futures. In this episode, Emily and Ruth talk grounded spiritual practice, land, creativity, gender expression, ancestry and languaging a new earth.

Episode transcript available here: https://share.descript.com/view/hBHA96K3yTx

Links and references

https://www.ruthcato.com

Instagram @shamanicpriestess

Interlude Music by Jenny Wilde Knight

Intro/Outro music by Richard Boxley

Staying Alive by Vandana Shiva

The Seeds of Vandana Shiva (documentary)

The Death of Nature and Earthcare by Carolyn Merchant

Weathering by Ruth Allen

Val Plumwood, Starhawk, Rachel Carson

The Frailty Myth by Colette Dowling

Jane Hardwicke Collins

Jo Hazell Watkins @jo_somaspace

Rosie Knowles (podcast)

Metal Britannia (documentary)

In this episode, Emily speaks with Aaron Lelito about interdisciplinary space, multisensory creative practice and cultivating simplicity.

Aaron is an editor, writer, and visual artist from Buffalo, New York, US. He founded the art and literature publication Wild Roof Journal in 2020 and serves as Editor in Chief. His poetry chapbook, The Half Turn, was published in 2023, and he released a collaborative notebook/art collection titled If We: Connections Through Creative Process in 2024. His work has also appeared in Stonecoast Review, Barzakh, Eavesdrop Magazine, SPECTRA Poets, Peach Mag, and Santa Fe Review. He is a freelance editor, certified meditation teacher, and English educator. 

A transcript of this episode is available here.

Visit the Wild Rood substack to subscribe and find submission details for upcoming issues. An outline of Aaron's editing services is also available on the Wild Roof Journal website.

Website: wildroofjournal.com
Substack: wildroofjournal.substack.com
IG: @wildroofjournal / @aaronlelito

https://aaronlelito.com

Walking by Thoreau

Looby Macnamara

⁠Silo City project⁠

Films: Wild (2014) and Where the Crawdads Sing (2022)

Jonathon Stalls (he, his) is a Multidisciplinary Walking Artist with Intrinsic Paths. In 2010, he walked for 242 days across the U.S. and has continued to move alongside a wide variety of people and landscapes ever since. His creative work involves ink drawing, creative writing, the Pedestrian Dignity project, walk leader training with Walk2Connect (a program of America Walks), facilitating mindfulness practices, and more. He is the author of WALK - Slow Down, Wake Up & Connect at 1-3 Miles Per Hour (North Atlantic Books, Aug 2022). He attended the Living School for Action and Contemplation from 2015-2017 and resides in Poncha Springs, Colorado with his husband, Ben.

Find a transcript of this episode online here.

Jonathon's website: www.intrinsicpaths.com

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/intrinsicpaths

WALK - Slow Down, Wake Up & Connect at 1-3 Miles Per Hour (North Atlantic Books, 2022)

Pedestrian Dignity on Substack: https://substack.com/@pedestriandignity

Walk2Connect Program with America Walks: https://americawalks.org/programs/walk2connect/

Instagram: @JonathonStalls @IntrinsicPaths @PedestrianDignity

Blue Sky: @JonathonStalls @PedestrianDignity &

Tiktok: @IntrinsicPaths

LinkedIn: Jonathon Stalls

Rural Women Walking and Waiting by Tara Patricia Cookson

(https://doi.org/10.1525/luminos.49.d)

The Electricity of Every Living Thing by Katherine May

In Praise of Walking by Shane O'Mara

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