The Art of Reconnection: Lee Emma Running and Daniela Naomi Molnar

The Art of Reconnection: Lee Emma Running and Daniela Naomi Molnar

From Spring Creek Podcast by Spring Creek Project

October 4, 2024 · 55 min

About this episode

Lee Emma Running and Daniela Naomi Molnar discuss the transformative power of place-based art practices and their relationship with nature.

In part one of "The Art of Reconnection" our series hosts, Lee Emma Running and Daniela Naomi Molnar , engage in a rich conversation about the ways their place-based practices of artmaking have transformed the quality of attention they bring to a place and their appreciation for the deep memory that is carried by the botanical, animal, and mineral elements found there. Daniela is a poet, artist, and writer who creates with color, water, language, and place. She makes large-scale abstract paintings with pigments she creates from plants, bones, stones, rainwater, and glacial melt. Gathered from specific biomes she has visited, these paints become palettes of place with which she investigates the earth's site-specific capacity for both memory and resilience. Lee creates arresting objects using cast iron, enamel, glass, bone, and handmade paper. Her work intimately explores the impact of human-built systems on the natural world, often incorporating the bodies and bones of animals killed on roads. She invites her audiences to renew their sense of kinship with non-human beings. Throughout their conversation, Lee and Daniela reflect on how foraging for, taking care of, and collaborating…

People in this episode

Host: Lee Emma Running

Guest: Daniela Naomi Molnar

Topics covered

  • art
  • place-based practices
  • memory
  • resilience
  • nature
  • human impact

Keywords

  • artmaking
  • place
  • memory
  • resilience
  • foraging
  • materials
  • nature

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Spring Creek Project

Books & works: The Art of Reconnection

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