This is a companion series to the Architecture of Contemplation podcast.

Today we are contemplating what it is to reclaim the night's sky. There is a term - sky grief - that gives voice to a feeling that we inherently intuit in spaces and places, city escapes and urban sprawls, a loss of the great, awesome, frightening grandeur, that is the night's sky. 

Thousands of years of looking up into the secrets of the sky, reading the messages of light, from sun, moon, stars, planets alike - this is our lineage. Before, all were asked to honour the rhythm of the day folding into night. Now, we sit, hunched over charms the size of our palms, isolated and alone; artificial lights for an artificial life. It is this night blindness that we each suffer from. This contemplation is an invitation to reclaim the night's sky.

Take a breath, and let's begin.

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Produced by: perse.london

Writer + Editor: Hardeep Kaur

@hardeep.earth

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Music track: Giant Wave by Zambolino

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Music track: Arrival by Aylex

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To the Glowing Forest by Piki

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Music track: Nighttime by Zambolino

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Music track: Whales by Zambolino

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