Christina Conklin on "Restoring Connective Tissue"
Artist, researcher, and writer, Christina Conklin talks with Tom VandeStadt, cofounder of AllCreation.org, about how we’re connected to the oceans, climate change and each other, and the need for Deep Transformation. As a former religious studies major, Christina spends a lot of time exploring the intersections of belief systems and natural systems. In this presentation (both audio and video), she shares deep insights, stunning artworks, and terrifying research from her latest book, The Atlas of Disappearing Places.
Listen to Christina’s interview here.
Highlighted Quotes
We’re used to thinking in terms of decades and centuries, but really we’re on this much bigger timeline of Life. I like locating myself on that timeline, it’s more grounding to me. Seeing the continuity between humans and other species, all the way back into the algae, right? Let’s go ALL the way back and see the continuity.
Every religion in the world has pointed to humanity’s role as stewards of nature, as parts of the natural order.
(The Oceans) are pretty sick and headed toward the hospital.
So much of what needs to happen is a paradigm shift where we re-member, Re-Member, like “belong again to the world,” and stop the idea of extraction, mastery of resources… All of these ideas came from a specific place and time in history. They have not always existed. It is not necessarily capital-T truth, in any sense.
I think it’s about everybody waking up and doing everything they can. It’s now. Now is the time.
The planetary systems are remarkably resilient. If you just leave them alone for a little while, they will find their homeostatic happy place again. We saw that with Covid. So, we really do have the opportunity to write new stories.
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Visit ChristinaConklin.com for more. This interview and presentation are one of the keynote features from our Summer 2022 collection, Restoring Connective Tissue.
