OBI KAUFMANN on the Ecotone of Art and Science /351

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🗓️ 11 October 2023

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

What is life at the edges of ecosystems, at the moments of convergence? In this week’s episode, guest Obi Kaufmann introduces listeners to his understanding of consilience – emphasizing the importance of art and science in sacred relationship.

Obi shares in a reverie about what California has been and could be, and in doing so, he invites guests to imagine a world where we recognize nature as the undeniable truth of who we are. Obi brings rooted knowledge and esoteric inquiry to this conversation. His nuanced understandings of conservation, rewilding, and relating to the natural world, pull us into a framework for seeing a world of deep, beautiful relationality, even amidst pain and loss.

Obi Kaufmann is an award-winning author of many best-selling books on California's ecology, biodiversity, and geography. Obi’s signature style is as artful as it is analytic, combining masterful renderings of wildlife, hand-painted maps, and data-driven storytelling to present a hopeful and integrated vision of California’s future. An avid conservationist, Obi Kaufmann regularly travels around the state, presenting his work and vision of ecological restoration and preservation from the Klamath-Siskiyou Wildland Center to the Mojave Desert Land Trust. Most recently, Obi was the artist-in-residence for the National Park Service at Whiskeytown National Recreation Area. You can catch him every month in conversation with author and tribal chairman Greg Sarris in their podcast called Place and Purpose. A lifelong resident of California, Obi Kaufmann makes his home base in Oakland and is currently working on Field Atlases to come.

Music by Memotone, Magnetic Vines, and Daniela Lanaia. Visit our website at forthewild.world for the full episode description, references, and action points.

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0:51.2	Hello and welcome to for the wild podcast. I'm Ayanna Young. Today we are speaking with
0:56.6	Obey Kauffman. In every single cell of us, we are the land, we are the river. We are physiologically
1:07.2	interconnected in a potentially infinite life. So how could we understand that? How could we
1:17.6	quantify that? How could we leave that? Because that is wholly terrestrial in nature.
1:27.2	That is our interconnection to the biosphere process of evolution that there is no
1:40.1	removing us from.
1:48.0	Obey Kauffman is an award-winning author of many best-selling books on California's ecology,
1:53.6	biodiversity, and geography. Obey's signature style is as artful as it is analytic,
1:59.6	combining masterful renderings of wildlife, hand-painted maps, and data-driven storytelling
2:05.3	to present a hopeful and integrated vision of California's future. An avid conservationist,
2:11.7	Obey Kauffman regularly travels around the state, presenting his work and vision of ecological
2:17.2	restoration, and preservation from the Klamath Sysky Wildland Center to the Mojave Desert Land Trust.
2:24.3	Most recently, Obey was the artist and residence for the National Park Service at Whiskey Town
2:29.4	National Recreation Area. You can catch him every month in conversation with author and tribal
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