Welcome to Emergence Magazine's podcast.

I'm Emmanuel Vaughn Lee, host of this show, an executive editor of Emergence Magazine,

located on the unseated ancestral lands of the Coast Mewalk people in present-day Marin County.

Each week, we feature interviews, stories, poetry, and author-narrated essays, exploring the threads

connecting ecology, culture, and spirituality. A couple of weeks ago, we released our third

shifting landscapes film, The Last Ice Age, featuring Andres Nier Magnusin, as he journeys to Europe's largest ice cap,

the Vatnajoko Glacier with his son, and draws on family memories to piece together the immense changes

unfolding in this icy and volcanic landscape.

The film, like much of Andre's work, explores how mythological stories can help us understand

the climate crisis, and in particular how our ideologies and ways of being are drastically

transforming the Earth.

This week, we turn to one such story, Andre wrote, for Volume 3 of our print edition, a story entitled

Giant Stone, which follows an architect in Reykjavik as he grapples with the growing discord

between his creativity and a capitalist reality, and searches for meaning amid architectural

expressions of greed. Laying bare the ways we materialize our narratives of control and human supremacy and the stuff we make,

Giant Stone asks us to consider what new stories could begin to shape our inner and outer worlds.

Will we remain stuck in our human-centric philosophies?

Or will our art come to reflect a life of connection with the living Earth?

I'm fascinated by time. Sometimes whole years pass, evoking only a few memories, while some moments are captured

at such high resolution in my mind, I could zoom in and uncover endless split-second details.

One such moment is happening right now. I've just picked up a concrete paving stone, swung it with my

right hand, and let it fly in the direction of a 2020 range rover Vogue.

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