Do you have a favorite? Not meant to, but mostly the unloved ones, the unvisited ones, the cases that get dusty and ignored.

All the broken and shunned creatures.

Someone's got to care for them.

Who shall it be if not us?

Yes. Welcome to Roon soup, a weekly podcast about magic, culture and the very best new and old ideas for living in this world, coming to you from 43 degrees south on a small farm in deepest Tasmania.

My name is Gordon and I shall be your host.

This week we welcome to the show Award-winning photographer, Dara Mason Field.

Given that we can't exactly go anywhere in the waking world at the moment,

Dara takes us on an imaginal journey to some of the mystic and magical places he is visited as a photographer and talks us through the transformative power of both travel and art.

Good stuff. Good medicine for these times. Enjoy. Dara, thank you for your time.

My pleasure. Yeah, yeah, good one. Well, you kind of know the traditional first

question which we will get to but the last couple of weeks we've sort of had an untraditional first question which is how are you?

How are things going for you and yours?

Well, I'm looking in the sense that things are good.

You know, no one's being like physically affected.

But it is, it's just, it's a slow feeling of the walls just getting closer and closer

as the weeks start to drift by.

Yeah, it's starting to make everyone a bit tense, all right.

It's not as a, doesn't have that sense of like, oh, this is a change

and that we're just going to experience for a bit. doesn't have that sense of like, oh, this is a change

and that we're just gonna experience for a bit.

It's definitely starting to,

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