
The Vital Compass
Dougald Hine
23rd December, 2020
Latest in our series Of Earth and Empire, a pivotal dialogue about moving out of 'the house that modernity built' between Dougald Hine and Brazilian academic, Vanessa Andreotti.
‘We belong on choppy seas,
eternal maelstroms, vast
laughing plains and unbound
skies …We belong anywhere
but here.’
Our ancestors came from the canopy, and – given our species’ reliance on trees to make our world habitable – in many ways we never left it. Or it never left us.’ This ongoing section is an invitation for writers and artists to explore human beings' vital relationship with trees.