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I'm Elise Hugh, you're listening to Ted Talks daily.

Urson Han Urson uses art to help us explore the link between our human world and the

natural world.

In his Ted 2023 talk, he shares the powerful way trees, reconnect us to who we are, and

each other.

Take around after the talk where I got to sit down with Urson to expand on his big idea

after a break.

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Stay tuned after this talk to hear a sneak peek of this week's episode.

I was a mosquito once, carried by the breeze in the grized ale forest in the north of England.

As I drifted between the trees, surrounded by the chatter of the forest, swirling waves

of pink and purpling off me, plumes of carbon dioxide and oxygen as the forest breathed.

Mastmerized by the beauty, never before glimpsed by human eyes, and I was in awe.

Then I was eaten by a dragonfly.

I became a dragonfly and discovered a magical world in which the entire forest unfurled

like a film in slow motion.

Through my dragonfly eyes, I took in my surroundings with a pretty much a full spectrum of light,

unlike my human self had ever been able to perceive.

These forays into becoming something other than human came about as part of our experiential

art piece called In the Eyes of the Animal, which I developed with my creative partners

Barney and Robin alongside the members of our art collective Marshmallow Laser Feast.

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