Holly Lynton melds form, content, and meaning in her strikingly beautiful images, capturing the lives of those providing our sustenance, while protecting our land. Lynton’s compositional framing, lush palette, textural tones, and transformative gestures craft a meditative beauty. Accompanying essays provide context for cultural contradictions, associations, and representations — speaking to the role art has played to perpetuate or reveal them.

Referenced in the episode

Lost in a meditation: Rural American life – in pictures, The Guardian

On the Basis of Art: 150 Years of Women at Yale

Signs of Return by Grace Elizabeth Hale

Questions of Travel by Elizabeth Bishop

Hoe Country, Alabama by Dorothea Lange 

Blurred Identities: The Art and Audience of Lynching Photography

History, Photography, and Race in the South: From the Civil War to Now

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver

Love Child’s Hotbed of Occasional Poetry: Poems and Artifacts by Nikky Finney

Hold Still by Sally Man

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