Art can remind us of nature’s awe, and can encourage us to take action.
Here WOOEE shares a podcast interview with Sonia Shomalzadeh, an international artist who draws whales on beaches in giant-sized sand works.
Whilst closer to our own shores, we take a keen look at the humpback whale, Muriyira in Dhurga (pronounced moo-ri-yira) a species that makes its annual southern and northern migrations past our coastline – and as captured through the eyes of Narooma’s Catfish Creative.
Podcast produced by – Climate Psychology Alliance
” ART HAS A HUGE ROLE TO PLAY IN HELPING US CONNECT EMOTIONALLY AND IMAGINALLY WITH THE ENORMITY OF CLIMATE CHANGE. “
” In this episode, marine artist Sonia Shomalzadeh talks to Caroline Hickman about the power and vision of her ephemeral art, including life size sand drawings of whales and charcoal sharks for fashion shows.
A talk on how art can communicate issues as big as extinction and how seeing her drawings might create a ripple effect that changes the course of our future. An artist with a passion for wildlife conservation. Born in Portsmouth in 1987, she grew up always wanting to be by the sea, with a keen interest in marine biology and the environment …”
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Watch Sonia Shomalzadeh here :
Catching the light
‘ …Artists and philosophers and those whom the actions of the
world has elevated and made keen,
do not live in isolation but breathe a common air,
and catch light and heat from each other’s thoughts. ‘
Fuller, Killian & Walker 1970, p. 159-60
Eurobodalla’s very own whale lover and artist – Catfish Creative offers home-grown inspiration and learning about the Humpback Whale, Megaptera Novaeangliae, Muriyira in the Dhurga language.
Megaptera in Latin means ‘big-winged’ with ‘novaeangliae’ refering to the location of New England where European whalers first encountered them.
You’ll never get mixed up about Humpback whale parts ever again!
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