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But years later, three young men went missing on the Pacific Crest Trail in relatively similar circumstances — and she couldn’t stop thinking about them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Trail of the Lost\u003c/em> was her answer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a gripping nonfiction narrative that delves deep into the cases of these three hikers who vanished while traversing the PCT. It digs into their lives and those of the people looking for them but also explores the history of the PCT and the rich, nuanced subculture, practices — and even literature — that surround it and those who undertake the 2,650-mi. journey from Mexico to Canada.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13933261']As a park ranger with the National Park Service’s law enforcement team, Lankford won several awards for her investigations. She also led search and rescue missions (SAR) in wild areas all across America. With the knowledge and expertise of her years on the job, Lankford started looking into the cases of the missing hikers, and soon found herself immersed in the world of Facebook groups whose goal was to share information and help find them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lankford launched her own investigation into the disappearances and soon found herself working with the families of those missing hikers, authorities who were on the case—with varying degrees of communication and cooperation—and with other hikers and people who developed an interest in the cases and wanted to help. Together, Lankford and all those involved in the searches canvassed the areas where the hikers had last been seen, visited and interviewed those who’d had contact with them around the time of their disappearance, and followed families and friends as they desperately followed any leads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13933988\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13933988\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/lost_custom-6f9c80ae90c0e417c59eb0b09367a0f54841b607-800x1111.jpg\" alt=\"A book cover showing a tree-covered mountain range. 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The first is the story of each of the three hikers—Chris Sylvia, David O’Sullivan, Kris Fowler. Lankford offers a small biography of each of the missing men and shows them through the eyes of those who knew them well and even those who joined the search after learning about their disappearances. The research was meticulous and Lankford used interviews to paint vivid pictures, including of what mental and emotional states they might’ve been in while hiking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right underneath the narratives about Sylvia, O’Sullivan, and Fowler are the stories of everyone looking for them. Lankford played a role in each search, but she relegated herself when writing this book and allowed friends, family, and even strangers to occupy center stage throughout most of the narrative. The story looks at the role of Facebook groups in the searches — and how crucial word of mouth can be. Many kindhearted individuals came forth and became instrumental in the searches or provided valuable information. But Lankford also writes of the many who lied for no apparent reason and muddled the investigations in the process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the stories of the hikers and everyone involved in the searches for them, including Lankford, takes up a lot of space, the narrative also shines a light on many aspects of the PCT, from its creation to the way popular books like Cheryl Strayed’s \u003cem>Wild \u003c/em>have had a massive impact on the number of people who attempt to hike the entire trail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13933542']Lankford, who on top of her SAR expertise has, among other accomplishments, thru-hiked the entire Appalachian Trail and was the first person to mountain bike the 800-mi. Arizona Trail along with her friend Beth Overton, knows just how wild and dangerous the PCT can be. The PCT is very popular, but the physical and mental demands of a thru-hike are many. Also, while the vistas are often some of the most beautiful in the country, \u003cem>Trail of the Lost \u003c/em>explores some of the dangers it hides. From the threat of mountain lions and bears to marijuana growers, mushroom poachers, and other people with bad intentions who don’t abide by the PCT’s unspoken code of ethics and camaraderie, this book also serves as an exposé on the well-known — as well as the often hidden or ignored — dangers of the PCT.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Trail of the Lost\u003c/em> is written with a clear, fast-paced, straightforward prose that still manages to be beautiful and immersive. It is also as full of hope and humanity as it is packed with pain, grief, danger, and tension. This is a book in which the PCT is as much of a character as every person Lankford writes about, and that balance makes it worthy reading.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Gabino Iglesias is an author, book reviewer and professor living in Austin, Texas. Find him on Twitter at\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Gabino_Iglesias\">@Gabino_Iglesias\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\">visit NPR\u003c/a>.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=%27Trail+of+the+Lost%27+is+a+gripping+tale+of+hikers+missing+on+the+Pacific+Crest+Trail&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Andrea Lankford delves deep into the cases of three men who vanished while hiking, and explores the history of the PCT.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705005089,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":13,"wordCount":843},"headData":{"title":"‘Trail of the Lost’ Book: A Gripping True Tale of 3 Missing Hikers | KQED","description":"Andrea Lankford delves deep into the cases of three men who vanished while hiking, and explores the history of the PCT.","ogTitle":"‘Trail of the Lost’ is a Gripping Tale of Hikers Missing on the Pacific Crest Trail","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"‘Trail of the Lost’ is a Gripping Tale of Hikers Missing on the Pacific Crest Trail","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","socialTitle":"‘Trail of the Lost’ Book: A Gripping True Tale of 3 Missing Hikers%%page%% %%sep%% KQED"},"sticky":false,"nprByline":"Gabino Iglesias","nprImageAgency":"Hachette Books","nprStoryId":"1195262616","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=1195262616&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"https://www.npr.org/2023/08/24/1195262616/book-review-andrea-lankfords-trail-of-the-lost?ft=nprml&f=1195262616","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Fri, 25 Aug 2023 09:11:00 -0400","nprStoryDate":"Thu, 24 Aug 2023 05:00:00 -0400","nprLastModifiedDate":"Fri, 25 Aug 2023 09:11:13 -0400","templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/arts/13933987/trail-of-the-lost-missing-hikers-pacific-crest-trail-sylvia-osullivan-fowler","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Andrea Lankford left a decorated career as a park ranger after growing tired of the bureaucracy involved. But years later, three young men went missing on the Pacific Crest Trail in relatively similar circumstances — and she couldn’t stop thinking about them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Trail of the Lost\u003c/em> was her answer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a gripping nonfiction narrative that delves deep into the cases of these three hikers who vanished while traversing the PCT. It digs into their lives and those of the people looking for them but also explores the history of the PCT and the rich, nuanced subculture, practices — and even literature — that surround it and those who undertake the 2,650-mi. journey from Mexico to Canada.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13933261","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>As a park ranger with the National Park Service’s law enforcement team, Lankford won several awards for her investigations. She also led search and rescue missions (SAR) in wild areas all across America. With the knowledge and expertise of her years on the job, Lankford started looking into the cases of the missing hikers, and soon found herself immersed in the world of Facebook groups whose goal was to share information and help find them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lankford launched her own investigation into the disappearances and soon found herself working with the families of those missing hikers, authorities who were on the case—with varying degrees of communication and cooperation—and with other hikers and people who developed an interest in the cases and wanted to help. Together, Lankford and all those involved in the searches canvassed the areas where the hikers had last been seen, visited and interviewed those who’d had contact with them around the time of their disappearance, and followed families and friends as they desperately followed any leads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13933988\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13933988\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/lost_custom-6f9c80ae90c0e417c59eb0b09367a0f54841b607-800x1111.jpg\" alt=\"A book cover showing a tree-covered mountain range. It reads: Trail of the Lost: The relentless search to bring home the missing hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1111\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/lost_custom-6f9c80ae90c0e417c59eb0b09367a0f54841b607-800x1111.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/lost_custom-6f9c80ae90c0e417c59eb0b09367a0f54841b607-1020x1417.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/lost_custom-6f9c80ae90c0e417c59eb0b09367a0f54841b607-160x222.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/lost_custom-6f9c80ae90c0e417c59eb0b09367a0f54841b607-768x1067.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/lost_custom-6f9c80ae90c0e417c59eb0b09367a0f54841b607-1106x1536.jpg 1106w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/lost_custom-6f9c80ae90c0e417c59eb0b09367a0f54841b607-1474x2048.jpg 1474w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/lost_custom-6f9c80ae90c0e417c59eb0b09367a0f54841b607.jpg 1684w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Trail of the Lost’ by Andrea Lankford. \u003ccite>(Hachette Books)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Trail of the Lost \u003c/em>is about the hikers and the efforts to find them, but it’s also a rich, multilayered narrative that works on three different levels. The first is the story of each of the three hikers—Chris Sylvia, David O’Sullivan, Kris Fowler. Lankford offers a small biography of each of the missing men and shows them through the eyes of those who knew them well and even those who joined the search after learning about their disappearances. The research was meticulous and Lankford used interviews to paint vivid pictures, including of what mental and emotional states they might’ve been in while hiking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right underneath the narratives about Sylvia, O’Sullivan, and Fowler are the stories of everyone looking for them. Lankford played a role in each search, but she relegated herself when writing this book and allowed friends, family, and even strangers to occupy center stage throughout most of the narrative. The story looks at the role of Facebook groups in the searches — and how crucial word of mouth can be. Many kindhearted individuals came forth and became instrumental in the searches or provided valuable information. But Lankford also writes of the many who lied for no apparent reason and muddled the investigations in the process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the stories of the hikers and everyone involved in the searches for them, including Lankford, takes up a lot of space, the narrative also shines a light on many aspects of the PCT, from its creation to the way popular books like Cheryl Strayed’s \u003cem>Wild \u003c/em>have had a massive impact on the number of people who attempt to hike the entire trail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13933542","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Lankford, who on top of her SAR expertise has, among other accomplishments, thru-hiked the entire Appalachian Trail and was the first person to mountain bike the 800-mi. Arizona Trail along with her friend Beth Overton, knows just how wild and dangerous the PCT can be. The PCT is very popular, but the physical and mental demands of a thru-hike are many. Also, while the vistas are often some of the most beautiful in the country, \u003cem>Trail of the Lost \u003c/em>explores some of the dangers it hides. From the threat of mountain lions and bears to marijuana growers, mushroom poachers, and other people with bad intentions who don’t abide by the PCT’s unspoken code of ethics and camaraderie, this book also serves as an exposé on the well-known — as well as the often hidden or ignored — dangers of the PCT.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Trail of the Lost\u003c/em> is written with a clear, fast-paced, straightforward prose that still manages to be beautiful and immersive. It is also as full of hope and humanity as it is packed with pain, grief, danger, and tension. This is a book in which the PCT is as much of a character as every person Lankford writes about, and that balance makes it worthy reading.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Gabino Iglesias is an author, book reviewer and professor living in Austin, Texas. Find him on Twitter at\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Gabino_Iglesias\">@Gabino_Iglesias\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\">visit NPR\u003c/a>.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=%27Trail+of+the+Lost%27+is+a+gripping+tale+of+hikers+missing+on+the+Pacific+Crest+Trail&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13933987/trail-of-the-lost-missing-hikers-pacific-crest-trail-sylvia-osullivan-fowler","authors":["byline_arts_13933987"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_73"],"tags":["arts_928","arts_1398","arts_2832"],"affiliates":["arts_137"],"featImg":"arts_13933991","label":"arts_137"},"arts_13926136":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13926136","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13926136","score":null,"sort":[1678814693000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"poignant-graphic-novel-ephemera-explores-an-oakland-artists-lonely-childhood","title":"Poignant Graphic Novel ‘Ephemera’ Explores an Oakland Artist’s Lonely Childhood","publishDate":1678814693,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Poignant Graphic Novel ‘Ephemera’ Explores an Oakland Artist’s Lonely Childhood | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":140,"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>There is a profound yearning in Briana Loewinsohn’s new graphic novel \u003cem>Ephemera \u003c/em>that diligently creeps throughout, like so many vines in search of daylight. It’s a yearning that’s unspoken, lurking in empty corners and open fields. It’s present in small, desperate acts and silent scenes of isolation. That yearning provides a depth to the Oakland artist’s debut memoir that takes surface beauty and transforms it into something devastating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.fantagraphics.com/products/ephemera\">\u003cem>Ephemera\u003c/em>\u003c/a> (Fantagraphics; $24.99) is the story of Loewinsohn’s childhood, of growing up with a mentally ill, neglectful mother who would disappear for extended periods, leaving Loewinsohn and her brother unattended. The author turned to nature for comfort, embracing tree branches, grass blades and potted plants when there was nothing to hold onto at home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13926139\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13926139\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/Screen-Shot-2023-03-13-at-12.57.37-PM-800x470.png\" alt=\"An illustration depicts a small girl lying on a tree branch. A caption above her reads 'Feeling your absence.'\" width=\"800\" height=\"470\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/Screen-Shot-2023-03-13-at-12.57.37-PM-800x470.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/Screen-Shot-2023-03-13-at-12.57.37-PM-1020x599.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/Screen-Shot-2023-03-13-at-12.57.37-PM-160x94.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/Screen-Shot-2023-03-13-at-12.57.37-PM-768x451.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/Screen-Shot-2023-03-13-at-12.57.37-PM-1536x902.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/Screen-Shot-2023-03-13-at-12.57.37-PM.png 1794w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nature and trees appear as a source of comfort in ‘Ephemera.’ \u003ccite>(Fantagraphics Books Inc.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Told from the perspective of the adult Loewinsohn as she returns to her childhood home in Berkeley to tend to the gardens there, the story distinguishes between the artist’s past and present using subdued but distinct color palettes. Her past is brought to life in blues and grays, emphasizing the coldness of the family home and the haze inherent to memories. Her present is tinged with reds, oranges and browns, like a new dawn, albeit one still contained in half-light.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13923268']The vegetation around Loewinsohn is a reflection of her past, her present and her desire to heal. (“Sometimes,” Loewinsohn notes at one point, “I worry about the plants that grow alone.”) In tending to her childhood gardens in the present day, Loewinsohn is repaying the living things that nurtured her as a child. But she’s also honoring her absent mother, who took better care of the plants in her care than the children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Loewinsohn shares restrained but sometimes agonizing realizations about how little love can sustain living things. “A little water can go a long way,” she notes after reviving one potted plant that appeared close to death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13926138\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13926138\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/Screen-Shot-2023-03-13-at-12.55.56-PM-800x527.png\" alt=\"An illustration showing a small girl curled up alone in a large bed, surrounded on all side by giant flowers and vines. \" width=\"800\" height=\"527\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/Screen-Shot-2023-03-13-at-12.55.56-PM-800x527.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/Screen-Shot-2023-03-13-at-12.55.56-PM-1020x672.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/Screen-Shot-2023-03-13-at-12.55.56-PM-160x105.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/Screen-Shot-2023-03-13-at-12.55.56-PM-768x506.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/Screen-Shot-2023-03-13-at-12.55.56-PM-1536x1012.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/Screen-Shot-2023-03-13-at-12.55.56-PM.png 1724w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The young Loewinsohn curled up in her mother’s bed, seeking comfort. \u003ccite>(Fantagraphics Books Inc.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>What makes \u003cem>Ephemera\u003c/em> extra-special is that it’s an almost wordless meditation. That quietude emphasizes the loneliness of Loewinsohn’s childhood in a manner that is frequently heart-wrenching. (I don’t remember a graphic novel that has ever made me cry as much as this one did.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Helpfully, there is much grace and optimism here too — particularly in the understanding that beautiful things may still grow out of shadows. For that, and many other reasons, \u003cem>Ephemera\u003c/em> is an unusual and profoundly moving work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.fantagraphics.com/collections/new-this-month/products/ephemera\">‘Ephemera’ publishes March 21\u003c/a> via Fantagraphics Books. Loewinsohn will read and appear in conversation with graphic novelist Thien Pham at 7 p.m. on March 21 at Mrs. Dalloway’s Literary and Garden Arts in Berkeley. \u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/briana-loewinsohn-in-store-launch-for-her-new-graphic-novel-ephemera-tickets-541707962097\">Details here\u003c/a>. Loewinsohn will also be in conversation with Gene Luen Yang and doing a book signing at Green Apple Books in San Francisco at 7 p.m. on March 27. \u003ca href=\"https://www.greenapplebooks.com/event/9th-ave-briana-loewinsohn-gene-luen-yang\">Details here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Briana Loewinsohn's moving debut recalls the comfort she found in nature while growing up with a mentally ill mother.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705005749,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":11,"wordCount":532},"headData":{"title":"Graphic Novel Review: Briana Loewinsohn’s ‘Ephemera’ | KQED","description":"Briana Loewinsohn's moving debut recalls the comfort she found in nature while growing up with a mentally ill mother.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","socialTitle":"Graphic Novel Review: Briana Loewinsohn’s ‘Ephemera’%%page%% %%sep%% KQED"},"sticky":false,"templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/arts/13926136/poignant-graphic-novel-ephemera-explores-an-oakland-artists-lonely-childhood","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>There is a profound yearning in Briana Loewinsohn’s new graphic novel \u003cem>Ephemera \u003c/em>that diligently creeps throughout, like so many vines in search of daylight. It’s a yearning that’s unspoken, lurking in empty corners and open fields. It’s present in small, desperate acts and silent scenes of isolation. That yearning provides a depth to the Oakland artist’s debut memoir that takes surface beauty and transforms it into something devastating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.fantagraphics.com/products/ephemera\">\u003cem>Ephemera\u003c/em>\u003c/a> (Fantagraphics; $24.99) is the story of Loewinsohn’s childhood, of growing up with a mentally ill, neglectful mother who would disappear for extended periods, leaving Loewinsohn and her brother unattended. The author turned to nature for comfort, embracing tree branches, grass blades and potted plants when there was nothing to hold onto at home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13926139\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13926139\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/Screen-Shot-2023-03-13-at-12.57.37-PM-800x470.png\" alt=\"An illustration depicts a small girl lying on a tree branch. A caption above her reads 'Feeling your absence.'\" width=\"800\" height=\"470\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/Screen-Shot-2023-03-13-at-12.57.37-PM-800x470.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/Screen-Shot-2023-03-13-at-12.57.37-PM-1020x599.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/Screen-Shot-2023-03-13-at-12.57.37-PM-160x94.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/Screen-Shot-2023-03-13-at-12.57.37-PM-768x451.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/Screen-Shot-2023-03-13-at-12.57.37-PM-1536x902.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/Screen-Shot-2023-03-13-at-12.57.37-PM.png 1794w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nature and trees appear as a source of comfort in ‘Ephemera.’ \u003ccite>(Fantagraphics Books Inc.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Told from the perspective of the adult Loewinsohn as she returns to her childhood home in Berkeley to tend to the gardens there, the story distinguishes between the artist’s past and present using subdued but distinct color palettes. Her past is brought to life in blues and grays, emphasizing the coldness of the family home and the haze inherent to memories. Her present is tinged with reds, oranges and browns, like a new dawn, albeit one still contained in half-light.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13923268","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The vegetation around Loewinsohn is a reflection of her past, her present and her desire to heal. (“Sometimes,” Loewinsohn notes at one point, “I worry about the plants that grow alone.”) In tending to her childhood gardens in the present day, Loewinsohn is repaying the living things that nurtured her as a child. But she’s also honoring her absent mother, who took better care of the plants in her care than the children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Loewinsohn shares restrained but sometimes agonizing realizations about how little love can sustain living things. “A little water can go a long way,” she notes after reviving one potted plant that appeared close to death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13926138\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13926138\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/Screen-Shot-2023-03-13-at-12.55.56-PM-800x527.png\" alt=\"An illustration showing a small girl curled up alone in a large bed, surrounded on all side by giant flowers and vines. \" width=\"800\" height=\"527\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/Screen-Shot-2023-03-13-at-12.55.56-PM-800x527.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/Screen-Shot-2023-03-13-at-12.55.56-PM-1020x672.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/Screen-Shot-2023-03-13-at-12.55.56-PM-160x105.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/Screen-Shot-2023-03-13-at-12.55.56-PM-768x506.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/Screen-Shot-2023-03-13-at-12.55.56-PM-1536x1012.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/Screen-Shot-2023-03-13-at-12.55.56-PM.png 1724w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The young Loewinsohn curled up in her mother’s bed, seeking comfort. \u003ccite>(Fantagraphics Books Inc.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>What makes \u003cem>Ephemera\u003c/em> extra-special is that it’s an almost wordless meditation. That quietude emphasizes the loneliness of Loewinsohn’s childhood in a manner that is frequently heart-wrenching. (I don’t remember a graphic novel that has ever made me cry as much as this one did.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Helpfully, there is much grace and optimism here too — particularly in the understanding that beautiful things may still grow out of shadows. For that, and many other reasons, \u003cem>Ephemera\u003c/em> is an unusual and profoundly moving work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.fantagraphics.com/collections/new-this-month/products/ephemera\">‘Ephemera’ publishes March 21\u003c/a> via Fantagraphics Books. Loewinsohn will read and appear in conversation with graphic novelist Thien Pham at 7 p.m. on March 21 at Mrs. Dalloway’s Literary and Garden Arts in Berkeley. \u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/briana-loewinsohn-in-store-launch-for-her-new-graphic-novel-ephemera-tickets-541707962097\">Details here\u003c/a>. Loewinsohn will also be in conversation with Gene Luen Yang and doing a book signing at Green Apple Books in San Francisco at 7 p.m. on March 27. \u003ca href=\"https://www.greenapplebooks.com/event/9th-ave-briana-loewinsohn-gene-luen-yang\">Details here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13926136/poignant-graphic-novel-ephemera-explores-an-oakland-artists-lonely-childhood","authors":["11242"],"programs":["arts_140"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_73","arts_11615"],"tags":["arts_1270","arts_19985","arts_654","arts_12034","arts_6977","arts_10629","arts_2832","arts_1143","arts_585"],"featImg":"arts_13926137","label":"arts_140"},"arts_13904135":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13904135","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13904135","score":null,"sort":[1633658326000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"journey-to-the-edge-of-california-mono-lake","title":"Journey to the Edge of California","publishDate":1633658326,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Journey to the Edge of California | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">T\u003c/span>he shores of Mono Lake are sandy, salty, still, silent. A peaceful patch of nature where man-made structures aren’t visible: houses and buildings, as well as social constructs. When I visited last month, I was removed from the isms that often dictate everyday life, for a brief moment at least.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mono Lake felt like a new world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-13833985\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">For further evidence that I was on a different planet: \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/Cp4H3uXl1Lk?t=180\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the tufa\u003c/a>. They’re these alien-looking limestone pillars that have grown over years and years and years and years, as freshwater springs beneath the lake’s surface combine with the lake’s saltwater, making calcium carbonate. There’s a gigantic mountain range to the west and a crater just a mile or two to the southeast. Both the valley where the lake sits and the islands that emerge from the lake’s water were created by volcanic activity throughout the ages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’ve lived in California for 30 years, and this whole time a totally different world was just a few hours from my crib.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I never thought before to venture out here. I’d look at the map of California and think there was nothing to see in the far eastern part of the state. I’d imagine that it’s just rural white folks who probably don’t like me. I’d convince myself that exploring nature isn’t for Black kids who grew up in the neighborhood. I’d drive loops around Oakland, Richmond and Vallejo, but aside from family trips to Reno or Tahoe, I never ventured to those mountains in the distance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>But I needed to see this world.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13904240\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-13904240\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/IMG_4530-1020x1360.jpg\" alt=\"A glimpse of the morning sun shown through an O-shaped piece of tufa.\" width=\"640\" height=\"853\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/IMG_4530-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/IMG_4530-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/IMG_4530-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/IMG_4530-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/IMG_4530-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/IMG_4530-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/IMG_4530-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A glimpse of the morning sun shown through an O-shaped piece of tufa. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Algae, birds, shrimp, and these loudly buzzing bugs that have adapted to the nutrient-deficient terrain—alkaline flies—are the noted inhabitants, so says the self-guided tour signs. One sign notes that, in 1941, water was diverted from the lake’s tributaries to the Los Angeles aqueduct. This resulted in water levels dropping and exposure of dry-salty terrain, even causing \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-mono-lake-dust20180705-htmlstory.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">toxic dust storms\u003c/a>. In 1994, the State Water Resources Control Board Water started a strategic effort to get the lake’s water back to its natural level, a goal still unmet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The tufa, some reaching 10 to 12 feet high, reminded me of that scene in old movies when a warlord casts a curse on the town’s people, turning them into stone where they stand. I imagined a warrior in one tower’s shape. In another I saw something that looked like a llama. I laughed.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>My goofy ass woke up 4am to drive about 200 miles to see some rocks. Nerd.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But at least I got a break from the world I know.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13904242\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13904242\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/IMG_4444-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"The morning sun shines its first light on the Tahoe Basin. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/IMG_4444-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/IMG_4444-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/IMG_4444-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/IMG_4444-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/IMG_4444-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/IMG_4444-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/IMG_4444-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The morning sun shines its first light on the Tahoe Basin. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">T\u003c/span>his is the first trip in a series of adventures in my \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13900274/hitting-the-road-and-building-a-northern-california-bucket-list\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Northern California Bucket List\u003c/a> series. I started at Mono Lake because of its remote location and its history. It also pushed me out of my comfort zone to travel alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the wee hours, sunlight greeted me in the Tahoe Basin. Nothing like seeing the sun rise over a mountain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The road led me through the mountains, out of California and into Nevada. Just across the state line, I stopped at a gas station where unleaded fuel was around $3.99 per gallon. Pickup trucks, camouflage clothing and lots of American flags. I knew what world I was in. Getting a full tank in a place where I was the only Black face later proved to be a smart move.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">After an hour, passing Topaz Lake and a giant scar in the land where fire had threatened a nearby housing stucture, I reached the Mono Lake Basin overlook. The air at the Mono Lake basin overlook was so fresh, I almost forgot that wildfires were burning a hundred miles away. After running around the south end of the lake for an hour or two—getting familiar with the geological terrain, reading signs, doing some bird watching—I realized that there wasn’t much more that I could do. In the end, it’s a big pile of stones.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So I left Mono Lake and took the\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> June Lake Loop, a road that goes around Grant Lake, Silver Lake, Gull Lake and June Lake. As I drove past Grant Lake, one of \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-droughts-government-and-politics-science-business-76709d5854394905e0f46880ed6dab9c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the state’s many depleted reservoirs\u003c/a>, I pulled over to take a photo of the lake that looked more like a pond.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I picked up my jaw, got back in the car, and hit the road. I was on pace to be home by sunset, which was important to me. I wanted to get out of this world before it got dark. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13904244\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13904244\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/IMG_4554-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"What remains of Grant Lake.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/IMG_4554-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/IMG_4554-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/IMG_4554-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/IMG_4554-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/IMG_4554-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/IMG_4554-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/IMG_4554-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">What remains of Grant Lake. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">On the trip back I drove through Lee Vining, a town on the western side of Mono Lake, where \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CUOq80Krs4O/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">premium unleaded was $5.69 per gallon\u003c/a>. (Told you getting a full tank earlier was a wise decision.) Across the street, I stopped at Mono Cone, a 1950s-esque hot dog and burger joint that offers soft-serve ice cream, and joined the line outside. \u003cem>My Black ass probably wouldn’t have been able to eat here back in the day\u003c/em>, I thought to myself. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And then, standing there in line, nothing was said to me. Not a single interaction, for better or for worse. No friendly hellos, nor odd stares. Nothing. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The self-imposed thoughts of where I’m \u003cem>supposed\u003c/em> to be and preconceived notions about groups of white folks got to me. I jumped back in the car without making a purchase.\u003cem> I’ll eat when I get home. \u003c/em>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">With the way Black folks have been confined to certain neighborhoods in this country, venturing out into rural spaces can be alarming—almost alien. I didn’t want to deal with my underlying fear, and how that fear is rooted in real stories. I just wanted to get back on the other side of \u003ca href=\"https://soj51.org/map/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">the proposed “State of Jefferson”\u003c/span>\u003c/a> dividing line.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are actual hot springs in the area, and I didn’t even consider stopping to see them. And \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11640709/how-this-ghost-towns-curse-backfired-on-park-rangers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bodie\u003c/a>—the ghost town I’d heard about—yeah, you know damn well I didn’t drive through there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My mission was complete: I stepped into another world, I saw the rocks, I got uncomfortable. Now I wanted to get home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13904247\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13904247\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/IMG_4522-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"The salt water and fresh water of Mono Lake create a blueish green tint. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/IMG_4522-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/IMG_4522-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/IMG_4522-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/IMG_4522-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/IMG_4522-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/IMG_4522-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/IMG_4522-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The salt water and fresh water of Mono Lake create a blueish green tint. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">I\u003c/span> drove the speed limit, hands at ten-and-two as I turned curves and watched for sheriffs and highway patrol. My laminated KQED press pass, a license to go places and ask questions, strategically rested in my cup holder in clear view, in case it’d help if I got pulled over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">As I drove through Placerville, a place that just this year removed \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-04-30/placerville-is-keeping-the-nickname-hangtown-after-dropping-a-noose-from-its-logo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a noose from the city’s logo\u003c/a> (but kept the nickname of “hangtown”), I marveled at the charred portions of Eldorado National Forest. People in bright orange and yellow work clothing scaled wooden poles, replacing wires and other infrastructure that wildfires had recently demolished. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The pine trees on the mountainside were scorched—no needles on their branches, but still standing, looking like a sea of oversized Charlie Brown Christmas trees. I rolled up my window to block the smell of smoke, but couldn’t dodge the reminders of racism, a crumbling infrastructure and a changing environment. Ahhh, back to the manmade structures I know so well.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">There’s so much more to see out there. These are features of the natural world that I can’t even wrap my mind around. A crater? Volcanoes? Massive fires? \u003c/span>A prehistoric salt lake thousands of miles up in the mountains where stone towers climb toward the sky?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13904238\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-13904238\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/IMG_4516-1020x1360.jpg\" alt=\"A piece of tufa that looks like the side profile of a warrior.\" width=\"640\" height=\"853\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/IMG_4516-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/IMG_4516-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/IMG_4516-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/IMG_4516-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/IMG_4516-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/IMG_4516-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/IMG_4516-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A piece of tufa that looks like the side profile of a warrior. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I needed this trip. I needed the reminder that this place that was stolen from natives about two hundred years ago by folks who claimed that God sent them to spread their beliefs. And we aren’t too far removed from that time period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The structures have advanced. And when I say structures, I mean houses and buildings as well as social constructs. But the elements—the isms—within these structures are as old as the tufa pillars.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Being cognizant of this only makes my internalized oppression scream. It’s hard to quiet that voice in my head that’s heard all the stories about this land and who has “a right” to it. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It’s enough to have you bogged down in one world; comfortable and complacent with the structures that have been created for us. All the while missing the peace that exists in another world.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"I drove to Mono Lake to see natural beauty—and was reminded of the same old toxic societal structures.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705007638,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":32,"wordCount":1547},"headData":{"title":"Journey to the Edge of California | KQED","description":"I drove to Mono Lake to see natural beauty—and was reminded of the same old toxic societal structures.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"source":"Commentary","sourceUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/artscommentary","sticky":false,"templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","path":"/arts/13904135/journey-to-the-edge-of-california-mono-lake","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">T\u003c/span>he shores of Mono Lake are sandy, salty, still, silent. A peaceful patch of nature where man-made structures aren’t visible: houses and buildings, as well as social constructs. When I visited last month, I was removed from the isms that often dictate everyday life, for a brief moment at least.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mono Lake felt like a new world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-13833985\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">For further evidence that I was on a different planet: \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/Cp4H3uXl1Lk?t=180\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the tufa\u003c/a>. They’re these alien-looking limestone pillars that have grown over years and years and years and years, as freshwater springs beneath the lake’s surface combine with the lake’s saltwater, making calcium carbonate. There’s a gigantic mountain range to the west and a crater just a mile or two to the southeast. Both the valley where the lake sits and the islands that emerge from the lake’s water were created by volcanic activity throughout the ages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’ve lived in California for 30 years, and this whole time a totally different world was just a few hours from my crib.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I never thought before to venture out here. I’d look at the map of California and think there was nothing to see in the far eastern part of the state. I’d imagine that it’s just rural white folks who probably don’t like me. I’d convince myself that exploring nature isn’t for Black kids who grew up in the neighborhood. I’d drive loops around Oakland, Richmond and Vallejo, but aside from family trips to Reno or Tahoe, I never ventured to those mountains in the distance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>But I needed to see this world.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13904240\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-13904240\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/IMG_4530-1020x1360.jpg\" alt=\"A glimpse of the morning sun shown through an O-shaped piece of tufa.\" width=\"640\" height=\"853\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/IMG_4530-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/IMG_4530-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/IMG_4530-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/IMG_4530-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/IMG_4530-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/IMG_4530-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/IMG_4530-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A glimpse of the morning sun shown through an O-shaped piece of tufa. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Algae, birds, shrimp, and these loudly buzzing bugs that have adapted to the nutrient-deficient terrain—alkaline flies—are the noted inhabitants, so says the self-guided tour signs. One sign notes that, in 1941, water was diverted from the lake’s tributaries to the Los Angeles aqueduct. This resulted in water levels dropping and exposure of dry-salty terrain, even causing \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-mono-lake-dust20180705-htmlstory.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">toxic dust storms\u003c/a>. In 1994, the State Water Resources Control Board Water started a strategic effort to get the lake’s water back to its natural level, a goal still unmet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The tufa, some reaching 10 to 12 feet high, reminded me of that scene in old movies when a warlord casts a curse on the town’s people, turning them into stone where they stand. I imagined a warrior in one tower’s shape. In another I saw something that looked like a llama. I laughed.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>My goofy ass woke up 4am to drive about 200 miles to see some rocks. Nerd.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But at least I got a break from the world I know.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13904242\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13904242\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/IMG_4444-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"The morning sun shines its first light on the Tahoe Basin. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/IMG_4444-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/IMG_4444-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/IMG_4444-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/IMG_4444-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/IMG_4444-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/IMG_4444-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/IMG_4444-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The morning sun shines its first light on the Tahoe Basin. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">T\u003c/span>his is the first trip in a series of adventures in my \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13900274/hitting-the-road-and-building-a-northern-california-bucket-list\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Northern California Bucket List\u003c/a> series. I started at Mono Lake because of its remote location and its history. It also pushed me out of my comfort zone to travel alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the wee hours, sunlight greeted me in the Tahoe Basin. Nothing like seeing the sun rise over a mountain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The road led me through the mountains, out of California and into Nevada. Just across the state line, I stopped at a gas station where unleaded fuel was around $3.99 per gallon. Pickup trucks, camouflage clothing and lots of American flags. I knew what world I was in. Getting a full tank in a place where I was the only Black face later proved to be a smart move.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">After an hour, passing Topaz Lake and a giant scar in the land where fire had threatened a nearby housing stucture, I reached the Mono Lake Basin overlook. The air at the Mono Lake basin overlook was so fresh, I almost forgot that wildfires were burning a hundred miles away. After running around the south end of the lake for an hour or two—getting familiar with the geological terrain, reading signs, doing some bird watching—I realized that there wasn’t much more that I could do. In the end, it’s a big pile of stones.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So I left Mono Lake and took the\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> June Lake Loop, a road that goes around Grant Lake, Silver Lake, Gull Lake and June Lake. As I drove past Grant Lake, one of \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-droughts-government-and-politics-science-business-76709d5854394905e0f46880ed6dab9c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the state’s many depleted reservoirs\u003c/a>, I pulled over to take a photo of the lake that looked more like a pond.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I picked up my jaw, got back in the car, and hit the road. I was on pace to be home by sunset, which was important to me. I wanted to get out of this world before it got dark. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13904244\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13904244\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/IMG_4554-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"What remains of Grant Lake.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/IMG_4554-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/IMG_4554-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/IMG_4554-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/IMG_4554-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/IMG_4554-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/IMG_4554-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/IMG_4554-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">What remains of Grant Lake. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">On the trip back I drove through Lee Vining, a town on the western side of Mono Lake, where \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CUOq80Krs4O/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">premium unleaded was $5.69 per gallon\u003c/a>. (Told you getting a full tank earlier was a wise decision.) Across the street, I stopped at Mono Cone, a 1950s-esque hot dog and burger joint that offers soft-serve ice cream, and joined the line outside. \u003cem>My Black ass probably wouldn’t have been able to eat here back in the day\u003c/em>, I thought to myself. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And then, standing there in line, nothing was said to me. Not a single interaction, for better or for worse. No friendly hellos, nor odd stares. Nothing. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The self-imposed thoughts of where I’m \u003cem>supposed\u003c/em> to be and preconceived notions about groups of white folks got to me. I jumped back in the car without making a purchase.\u003cem> I’ll eat when I get home. \u003c/em>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">With the way Black folks have been confined to certain neighborhoods in this country, venturing out into rural spaces can be alarming—almost alien. I didn’t want to deal with my underlying fear, and how that fear is rooted in real stories. I just wanted to get back on the other side of \u003ca href=\"https://soj51.org/map/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">the proposed “State of Jefferson”\u003c/span>\u003c/a> dividing line.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are actual hot springs in the area, and I didn’t even consider stopping to see them. And \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11640709/how-this-ghost-towns-curse-backfired-on-park-rangers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bodie\u003c/a>—the ghost town I’d heard about—yeah, you know damn well I didn’t drive through there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My mission was complete: I stepped into another world, I saw the rocks, I got uncomfortable. Now I wanted to get home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13904247\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13904247\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/IMG_4522-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"The salt water and fresh water of Mono Lake create a blueish green tint. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/IMG_4522-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/IMG_4522-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/IMG_4522-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/IMG_4522-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/IMG_4522-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/IMG_4522-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/IMG_4522-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The salt water and fresh water of Mono Lake create a blueish green tint. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">I\u003c/span> drove the speed limit, hands at ten-and-two as I turned curves and watched for sheriffs and highway patrol. My laminated KQED press pass, a license to go places and ask questions, strategically rested in my cup holder in clear view, in case it’d help if I got pulled over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">As I drove through Placerville, a place that just this year removed \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-04-30/placerville-is-keeping-the-nickname-hangtown-after-dropping-a-noose-from-its-logo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a noose from the city’s logo\u003c/a> (but kept the nickname of “hangtown”), I marveled at the charred portions of Eldorado National Forest. People in bright orange and yellow work clothing scaled wooden poles, replacing wires and other infrastructure that wildfires had recently demolished. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The pine trees on the mountainside were scorched—no needles on their branches, but still standing, looking like a sea of oversized Charlie Brown Christmas trees. I rolled up my window to block the smell of smoke, but couldn’t dodge the reminders of racism, a crumbling infrastructure and a changing environment. Ahhh, back to the manmade structures I know so well.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">There’s so much more to see out there. These are features of the natural world that I can’t even wrap my mind around. A crater? Volcanoes? Massive fires? \u003c/span>A prehistoric salt lake thousands of miles up in the mountains where stone towers climb toward the sky?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13904238\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-13904238\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/IMG_4516-1020x1360.jpg\" alt=\"A piece of tufa that looks like the side profile of a warrior.\" width=\"640\" height=\"853\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/IMG_4516-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/IMG_4516-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/IMG_4516-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/IMG_4516-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/IMG_4516-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/IMG_4516-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/IMG_4516-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A piece of tufa that looks like the side profile of a warrior. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I needed this trip. I needed the reminder that this place that was stolen from natives about two hundred years ago by folks who claimed that God sent them to spread their beliefs. And we aren’t too far removed from that time period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The structures have advanced. And when I say structures, I mean houses and buildings as well as social constructs. But the elements—the isms—within these structures are as old as the tufa pillars.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Being cognizant of this only makes my internalized oppression scream. It’s hard to quiet that voice in my head that’s heard all the stories about this land and who has “a right” to it. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It’s enough to have you bogged down in one world; comfortable and complacent with the structures that have been created for us. All the while missing the peace that exists in another world.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13904135/journey-to-the-edge-of-california-mono-lake","authors":["11491"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_2303","arts_835"],"tags":["arts_14452","arts_2767","arts_10342","arts_10278","arts_2832","arts_3652"],"featImg":"arts_13904334","label":"source_arts_13904135"},"arts_13899291":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13899291","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13899291","score":null,"sort":[1624551772000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"how-oakland-photographer-chanell-stone-is-reframing-nature-photography","title":"Oakland Photographer Chanell Stone on Reaffirming Black Spaces in Nature","publishDate":1624551772,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Oakland Photographer Chanell Stone on Reaffirming Black Spaces in Nature | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>When most people think about traditional nature photography, black and white images of towering mountains and rushing rivers in the American West are often what comes to mind. It’s a genre that was made popular by men like Ansel Adams and Edward Weston, whose work in the early 1900s often positioned the natural world as something that is remote, wild and untouched.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But missing from this tradition is another kind of landscape — the natural beauty found within cities. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13899294\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_imperialcourts_custom-9f62e1bbdcdf72c92768fcc64cf17d2662d8bf58-800x559.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"559\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13899294\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_imperialcourts_custom-9f62e1bbdcdf72c92768fcc64cf17d2662d8bf58-800x559.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_imperialcourts_custom-9f62e1bbdcdf72c92768fcc64cf17d2662d8bf58-1020x713.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_imperialcourts_custom-9f62e1bbdcdf72c92768fcc64cf17d2662d8bf58-160x112.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_imperialcourts_custom-9f62e1bbdcdf72c92768fcc64cf17d2662d8bf58-768x537.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_imperialcourts_custom-9f62e1bbdcdf72c92768fcc64cf17d2662d8bf58-1536x1073.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_imperialcourts_custom-9f62e1bbdcdf72c92768fcc64cf17d2662d8bf58-2048x1431.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_imperialcourts_custom-9f62e1bbdcdf72c92768fcc64cf17d2662d8bf58-1920x1341.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“For many Black people, rural nature, places like national parks, aren’t very accessible,” says Chanell Stone. Above, “Imperial Courts,” 2018, Los Angeles. \u003ccite>(Chanell Stone)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s in these settings that the California-based photographer Chanell Stone, 29, challenges this genre of photography. Working within predominantly Black neighborhoods in Brooklyn, Los Angeles and her home city of Oakland, Stone photographs locations like overgrown lots and green spaces at public housing projects, often including herself in the frame. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For many Black people, rural nature, places like national parks, aren’t very accessible,” says Stone. “Sometimes it’s the cost, but more often the issue is societal. As Black people, it feels like these rural spaces aren’t for us. I want to turn that idea on its head.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13899293\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_intheovergrowth_custom-d2dc666709304fc875d0417eab17a2830d601fdb-800x1087.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1087\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13899293\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_intheovergrowth_custom-d2dc666709304fc875d0417eab17a2830d601fdb-800x1087.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_intheovergrowth_custom-d2dc666709304fc875d0417eab17a2830d601fdb-1020x1386.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_intheovergrowth_custom-d2dc666709304fc875d0417eab17a2830d601fdb-160x217.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_intheovergrowth_custom-d2dc666709304fc875d0417eab17a2830d601fdb-768x1043.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_intheovergrowth_custom-d2dc666709304fc875d0417eab17a2830d601fdb-1130x1536.jpg 1130w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_intheovergrowth_custom-d2dc666709304fc875d0417eab17a2830d601fdb-1507x2048.jpg 1507w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_intheovergrowth_custom-d2dc666709304fc875d0417eab17a2830d601fdb-1920x2609.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_intheovergrowth_custom-d2dc666709304fc875d0417eab17a2830d601fdb-scaled.jpg 1884w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“In the Overgrowth,” 2019, Los Angeles. \u003ccite>(Chanell Stone)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The data seems to back this up. Black Americans account for less than 2% of national park visitors, according to a \u003ca href=\"http://www.georgewright.org/351scott.pdf\">2018 report\u003c/a> published by the George Wright Society.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rather than leave the city in search of natural beauty, Stone heads into it. “It’s important to see the beauty in the most overlooked and mundane urban environments,” she says. “Growing up in a low-income neighborhood, I saw how the area was cast aside compared to other areas of Los Angeles. It made me think about why it was disregarded. But now these same places where I grew up are being gentrified. So apparently there was value there all along.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13899295\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_fig1_custom-d6448247fc13d0e0870410ad860f71ec7d105ef9-800x541.jpg\" alt='\"Fig,\" 2019, Oakland.' width=\"800\" height=\"541\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13899295\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_fig1_custom-d6448247fc13d0e0870410ad860f71ec7d105ef9-800x541.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_fig1_custom-d6448247fc13d0e0870410ad860f71ec7d105ef9-1020x690.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_fig1_custom-d6448247fc13d0e0870410ad860f71ec7d105ef9-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_fig1_custom-d6448247fc13d0e0870410ad860f71ec7d105ef9-768x519.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_fig1_custom-d6448247fc13d0e0870410ad860f71ec7d105ef9-1536x1039.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_fig1_custom-d6448247fc13d0e0870410ad860f71ec7d105ef9-2048x1385.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_fig1_custom-d6448247fc13d0e0870410ad860f71ec7d105ef9-1920x1299.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“Fig,” 2019, Oakland. \u003ccite>(Chanell Stone)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Stone’s work offers a new take on basic questions about nature photography — questions like where is nature located? Who is the genre for? Who gets to practice nature photography and what even counts as nature anyway?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13873630']Stone says the answers to these questions have almost always been seen through a very specific lens — one that is white, male and rooted in a narrative of westward expansion that largely erases Native communities from the landscape. When Stone photographs herself in the middle of a patch of plants at a public housing complex in Brooklyn, she makes these implicit biases clear for the viewer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Early landscape photography perpetuates a cultural amnesia. There is another kind of forgetting and erasure happening now with gentrification in these Black communities where I am making pictures. That is why I put myself in these places and photos,” she says. “It is important to see a Black body in this space before gentrification erases the history and aesthetics of these neighborhoods. I want to reaffirm my presence, especially as a Black woman.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13899296\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_balcony_srgb_custom-48a4eb4736746b8725854fa6125e9f50500bb360-800x1115.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1115\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13899296\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_balcony_srgb_custom-48a4eb4736746b8725854fa6125e9f50500bb360-800x1115.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_balcony_srgb_custom-48a4eb4736746b8725854fa6125e9f50500bb360-1020x1421.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_balcony_srgb_custom-48a4eb4736746b8725854fa6125e9f50500bb360-160x223.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_balcony_srgb_custom-48a4eb4736746b8725854fa6125e9f50500bb360-768x1070.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_balcony_srgb_custom-48a4eb4736746b8725854fa6125e9f50500bb360-1102x1536.jpg 1102w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_balcony_srgb_custom-48a4eb4736746b8725854fa6125e9f50500bb360-1470x2048.jpg 1470w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_balcony_srgb_custom-48a4eb4736746b8725854fa6125e9f50500bb360-1920x2675.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_balcony_srgb_custom-48a4eb4736746b8725854fa6125e9f50500bb360-scaled.jpg 1837w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“It’s important to see the beauty in the most overlooked and mundane urban environments,” says Stone. Above, “Balcony Year,” 2019, Oakland. \u003ccite>(Chanell Stone)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The images are all part of Stone’s series, “\u003ca href=\"https://www.chanellstone.com/natura-negra\">Natura Negra\u003c/a>,” which she describes as an act of reclamation. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Growing up, I only understood Black people’s relationship to nature through slavery. My textbook had two pages of Black history: slavery, the Emancipation Proclamation, and MLK. That’s it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stone says she wants to correct this reductionist history, and show that Black people have a relationship with the land beyond one of terror and oppression. In her own family’s photography archive, for example, she found pictures of her grandparents on camping trips.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13899297\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_lorimercourt_custom-da6225a8736aaa15d25bfa9c437c3532e0a7b6dc-800x638.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"638\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13899297\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_lorimercourt_custom-da6225a8736aaa15d25bfa9c437c3532e0a7b6dc-800x638.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_lorimercourt_custom-da6225a8736aaa15d25bfa9c437c3532e0a7b6dc-1020x814.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_lorimercourt_custom-da6225a8736aaa15d25bfa9c437c3532e0a7b6dc-160x128.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_lorimercourt_custom-da6225a8736aaa15d25bfa9c437c3532e0a7b6dc-768x613.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_lorimercourt_custom-da6225a8736aaa15d25bfa9c437c3532e0a7b6dc-1536x1226.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_lorimercourt_custom-da6225a8736aaa15d25bfa9c437c3532e0a7b6dc-2048x1634.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_lorimercourt_custom-da6225a8736aaa15d25bfa9c437c3532e0a7b6dc-1920x1532.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“Lorimer Court,” 2019, Brooklyn. \u003ccite>(Chanell Stone)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In one photograph from the Natura Negra series, Stone poses in her grandmother’s backyard, a space filled with aloe and other succulents suited for the Los Angeles sun. She is shirtless, staring directly at the camera. She explained that it is a place where she feels safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want Black people to be able to move within these spaces without worrying about their life being taken,” she says. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13899298\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_pottedearth_custom-a083f121599437df1eae8fa9a867ae04278bb78c-800x1005.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1005\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13899298\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_pottedearth_custom-a083f121599437df1eae8fa9a867ae04278bb78c-800x1005.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_pottedearth_custom-a083f121599437df1eae8fa9a867ae04278bb78c-1020x1281.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_pottedearth_custom-a083f121599437df1eae8fa9a867ae04278bb78c-160x201.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_pottedearth_custom-a083f121599437df1eae8fa9a867ae04278bb78c-768x965.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_pottedearth_custom-a083f121599437df1eae8fa9a867ae04278bb78c-1223x1536.jpg 1223w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_pottedearth_custom-a083f121599437df1eae8fa9a867ae04278bb78c-1630x2048.jpg 1630w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_pottedearth_custom-a083f121599437df1eae8fa9a867ae04278bb78c-1920x2412.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_pottedearth_custom-a083f121599437df1eae8fa9a867ae04278bb78c-scaled.jpg 2038w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In “Potted Earth,” a 2019 portrait in Los Angeles, Stone poses in her grandmother’s backyard.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That feeling of safety, she says, starts with reinforcing a sense of closeness to the land. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want Black people to understand our connections to nature, both urban and rural,” says Stone. “I want to destroy the notion that it isn’t for us.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Housing+Projects+And+Empty+Lots.+How+Chanell+Stone+Is+Reframing+Nature+Photography&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"'As Black people, it feels like these rural spaces aren't for us,' Stone says. 'I want to turn that idea on its head.'","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705008163,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":18,"wordCount":828},"headData":{"title":"Oakland Photographer Chanell Stone on Reaffirming Black Spaces in Nature | KQED","description":"'As Black people, it feels like these rural spaces aren't for us,' Stone says. 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It’s a genre that was made popular by men like Ansel Adams and Edward Weston, whose work in the early 1900s often positioned the natural world as something that is remote, wild and untouched.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But missing from this tradition is another kind of landscape — the natural beauty found within cities. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13899294\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_imperialcourts_custom-9f62e1bbdcdf72c92768fcc64cf17d2662d8bf58-800x559.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"559\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13899294\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_imperialcourts_custom-9f62e1bbdcdf72c92768fcc64cf17d2662d8bf58-800x559.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_imperialcourts_custom-9f62e1bbdcdf72c92768fcc64cf17d2662d8bf58-1020x713.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_imperialcourts_custom-9f62e1bbdcdf72c92768fcc64cf17d2662d8bf58-160x112.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_imperialcourts_custom-9f62e1bbdcdf72c92768fcc64cf17d2662d8bf58-768x537.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_imperialcourts_custom-9f62e1bbdcdf72c92768fcc64cf17d2662d8bf58-1536x1073.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_imperialcourts_custom-9f62e1bbdcdf72c92768fcc64cf17d2662d8bf58-2048x1431.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_imperialcourts_custom-9f62e1bbdcdf72c92768fcc64cf17d2662d8bf58-1920x1341.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“For many Black people, rural nature, places like national parks, aren’t very accessible,” says Chanell Stone. Above, “Imperial Courts,” 2018, Los Angeles. \u003ccite>(Chanell Stone)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s in these settings that the California-based photographer Chanell Stone, 29, challenges this genre of photography. Working within predominantly Black neighborhoods in Brooklyn, Los Angeles and her home city of Oakland, Stone photographs locations like overgrown lots and green spaces at public housing projects, often including herself in the frame. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For many Black people, rural nature, places like national parks, aren’t very accessible,” says Stone. “Sometimes it’s the cost, but more often the issue is societal. As Black people, it feels like these rural spaces aren’t for us. I want to turn that idea on its head.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13899293\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_intheovergrowth_custom-d2dc666709304fc875d0417eab17a2830d601fdb-800x1087.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1087\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13899293\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_intheovergrowth_custom-d2dc666709304fc875d0417eab17a2830d601fdb-800x1087.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_intheovergrowth_custom-d2dc666709304fc875d0417eab17a2830d601fdb-1020x1386.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_intheovergrowth_custom-d2dc666709304fc875d0417eab17a2830d601fdb-160x217.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_intheovergrowth_custom-d2dc666709304fc875d0417eab17a2830d601fdb-768x1043.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_intheovergrowth_custom-d2dc666709304fc875d0417eab17a2830d601fdb-1130x1536.jpg 1130w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_intheovergrowth_custom-d2dc666709304fc875d0417eab17a2830d601fdb-1507x2048.jpg 1507w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_intheovergrowth_custom-d2dc666709304fc875d0417eab17a2830d601fdb-1920x2609.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_intheovergrowth_custom-d2dc666709304fc875d0417eab17a2830d601fdb-scaled.jpg 1884w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“In the Overgrowth,” 2019, Los Angeles. \u003ccite>(Chanell Stone)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The data seems to back this up. Black Americans account for less than 2% of national park visitors, according to a \u003ca href=\"http://www.georgewright.org/351scott.pdf\">2018 report\u003c/a> published by the George Wright Society.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rather than leave the city in search of natural beauty, Stone heads into it. “It’s important to see the beauty in the most overlooked and mundane urban environments,” she says. “Growing up in a low-income neighborhood, I saw how the area was cast aside compared to other areas of Los Angeles. It made me think about why it was disregarded. But now these same places where I grew up are being gentrified. So apparently there was value there all along.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13899295\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_fig1_custom-d6448247fc13d0e0870410ad860f71ec7d105ef9-800x541.jpg\" alt='\"Fig,\" 2019, Oakland.' width=\"800\" height=\"541\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13899295\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_fig1_custom-d6448247fc13d0e0870410ad860f71ec7d105ef9-800x541.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_fig1_custom-d6448247fc13d0e0870410ad860f71ec7d105ef9-1020x690.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_fig1_custom-d6448247fc13d0e0870410ad860f71ec7d105ef9-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_fig1_custom-d6448247fc13d0e0870410ad860f71ec7d105ef9-768x519.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_fig1_custom-d6448247fc13d0e0870410ad860f71ec7d105ef9-1536x1039.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_fig1_custom-d6448247fc13d0e0870410ad860f71ec7d105ef9-2048x1385.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_fig1_custom-d6448247fc13d0e0870410ad860f71ec7d105ef9-1920x1299.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“Fig,” 2019, Oakland. \u003ccite>(Chanell Stone)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Stone’s work offers a new take on basic questions about nature photography — questions like where is nature located? Who is the genre for? Who gets to practice nature photography and what even counts as nature anyway?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13873630","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Stone says the answers to these questions have almost always been seen through a very specific lens — one that is white, male and rooted in a narrative of westward expansion that largely erases Native communities from the landscape. When Stone photographs herself in the middle of a patch of plants at a public housing complex in Brooklyn, she makes these implicit biases clear for the viewer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Early landscape photography perpetuates a cultural amnesia. There is another kind of forgetting and erasure happening now with gentrification in these Black communities where I am making pictures. That is why I put myself in these places and photos,” she says. “It is important to see a Black body in this space before gentrification erases the history and aesthetics of these neighborhoods. I want to reaffirm my presence, especially as a Black woman.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13899296\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_balcony_srgb_custom-48a4eb4736746b8725854fa6125e9f50500bb360-800x1115.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1115\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13899296\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_balcony_srgb_custom-48a4eb4736746b8725854fa6125e9f50500bb360-800x1115.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_balcony_srgb_custom-48a4eb4736746b8725854fa6125e9f50500bb360-1020x1421.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_balcony_srgb_custom-48a4eb4736746b8725854fa6125e9f50500bb360-160x223.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_balcony_srgb_custom-48a4eb4736746b8725854fa6125e9f50500bb360-768x1070.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_balcony_srgb_custom-48a4eb4736746b8725854fa6125e9f50500bb360-1102x1536.jpg 1102w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_balcony_srgb_custom-48a4eb4736746b8725854fa6125e9f50500bb360-1470x2048.jpg 1470w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_balcony_srgb_custom-48a4eb4736746b8725854fa6125e9f50500bb360-1920x2675.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_balcony_srgb_custom-48a4eb4736746b8725854fa6125e9f50500bb360-scaled.jpg 1837w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“It’s important to see the beauty in the most overlooked and mundane urban environments,” says Stone. Above, “Balcony Year,” 2019, Oakland. \u003ccite>(Chanell Stone)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The images are all part of Stone’s series, “\u003ca href=\"https://www.chanellstone.com/natura-negra\">Natura Negra\u003c/a>,” which she describes as an act of reclamation. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Growing up, I only understood Black people’s relationship to nature through slavery. My textbook had two pages of Black history: slavery, the Emancipation Proclamation, and MLK. That’s it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stone says she wants to correct this reductionist history, and show that Black people have a relationship with the land beyond one of terror and oppression. In her own family’s photography archive, for example, she found pictures of her grandparents on camping trips.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13899297\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_lorimercourt_custom-da6225a8736aaa15d25bfa9c437c3532e0a7b6dc-800x638.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"638\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13899297\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_lorimercourt_custom-da6225a8736aaa15d25bfa9c437c3532e0a7b6dc-800x638.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_lorimercourt_custom-da6225a8736aaa15d25bfa9c437c3532e0a7b6dc-1020x814.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_lorimercourt_custom-da6225a8736aaa15d25bfa9c437c3532e0a7b6dc-160x128.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_lorimercourt_custom-da6225a8736aaa15d25bfa9c437c3532e0a7b6dc-768x613.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_lorimercourt_custom-da6225a8736aaa15d25bfa9c437c3532e0a7b6dc-1536x1226.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_lorimercourt_custom-da6225a8736aaa15d25bfa9c437c3532e0a7b6dc-2048x1634.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_lorimercourt_custom-da6225a8736aaa15d25bfa9c437c3532e0a7b6dc-1920x1532.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“Lorimer Court,” 2019, Brooklyn. \u003ccite>(Chanell Stone)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In one photograph from the Natura Negra series, Stone poses in her grandmother’s backyard, a space filled with aloe and other succulents suited for the Los Angeles sun. She is shirtless, staring directly at the camera. She explained that it is a place where she feels safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want Black people to be able to move within these spaces without worrying about their life being taken,” she says. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13899298\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_pottedearth_custom-a083f121599437df1eae8fa9a867ae04278bb78c-800x1005.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1005\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13899298\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_pottedearth_custom-a083f121599437df1eae8fa9a867ae04278bb78c-800x1005.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_pottedearth_custom-a083f121599437df1eae8fa9a867ae04278bb78c-1020x1281.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_pottedearth_custom-a083f121599437df1eae8fa9a867ae04278bb78c-160x201.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_pottedearth_custom-a083f121599437df1eae8fa9a867ae04278bb78c-768x965.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_pottedearth_custom-a083f121599437df1eae8fa9a867ae04278bb78c-1223x1536.jpg 1223w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_pottedearth_custom-a083f121599437df1eae8fa9a867ae04278bb78c-1630x2048.jpg 1630w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_pottedearth_custom-a083f121599437df1eae8fa9a867ae04278bb78c-1920x2412.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_pottedearth_custom-a083f121599437df1eae8fa9a867ae04278bb78c-scaled.jpg 2038w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In “Potted Earth,” a 2019 portrait in Los Angeles, Stone poses in her grandmother’s backyard.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That feeling of safety, she says, starts with reinforcing a sense of closeness to the land. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want Black people to understand our connections to nature, both urban and rural,” says Stone. “I want to destroy the notion that it isn’t for us.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Housing+Projects+And+Empty+Lots.+How+Chanell+Stone+Is+Reframing+Nature+Photography&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13899291/how-oakland-photographer-chanell-stone-is-reframing-nature-photography","authors":["byline_arts_13899291"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_70"],"tags":["arts_2832","arts_1143","arts_901"],"featImg":"arts_13899292","label":"arts"},"arts_13897057":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13897057","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13897057","score":null,"sort":[1621029034000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"nature-is-stressful-bruh","title":"Nature is Stressful, Bruh","publishDate":1621029034,"format":"aside","headTitle":"Nature is Stressful, Bruh | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13897062\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/IMG_8986-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A dried shell of a former living creature at Lake Folsom.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13897062\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/IMG_8986-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/IMG_8986-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/IMG_8986-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/IMG_8986-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/IMG_8986-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/IMG_8986-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/IMG_8986-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A dried shell of a former living creature at Lake Folsom. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">A\u003c/span>mong all my \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/podcasts/rightnowish\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">other work\u003c/a>, I haven’t sat down and written a column in nearly a month. Writing droughts are natural, and I’m in the thick of one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leads for potential stories are piled up in my inbox. Anxiety is kicking my ass. Plus I’ve got this back pain that’s causing my left arm to go numb when I sit down. An inflamed muscle is putting pressure on a nerve near my neck, the doctor and chiropractor both tell me; likely a byproduct of bad posture and built-up stress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-13833985\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So I’ve been stretching, icing my back, and taking meds. Oh, and spending time in nature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I love nature. Luckily, my “backyard”—Northern California—is home to landscapes that look like the images on postcards they sell at gas stations. Unfortunately, this land also seems to be as flammable as newspaper dipped in kerosene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The peril this region faces due to drought, lack of investment in infrastructure and man-made manipulation of the environment is already one of the greatest stresses of our lifetime. And when you’re paying attention to the issues facing your outdoor weekend hike, finding relief in nature becomes a convoluted idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13897059\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 768px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13897059\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/IMG_1232.jpg\" alt=\"One of the many redwood trees in the Muir Woods.\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/IMG_1232.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/IMG_1232-160x213.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of the many redwood trees at Muir Woods. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Following last month’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2021/04/21/governor-newsom-takes-action-to-respond-to-drought-conditions/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">official announcement\u003c/a> from Governor Newsom that California is indeed in the throes of another “drought,” the \u003cem>Los Angeles Times\u003c/em>’ editorial board published a piece proclaiming, in essence: this isn’t a drought, \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2021-05-06/editorial-there-is-no-drought\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">it’s the new climate\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As if on cue, over the weekend the National Weather Service issued the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/weather-news/article251277629.html\">first red flag warning of the year\u003c/a>—a rare occurrence for as early as May. Sure enough, a number of small fires popped up around Northern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These are the things I think about when I’m out in the Bay Area’s enclaves of nature. Especially when I’m reminded of the bigger, global issue, through news of \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/04/22/fact-sheet-president-biden-sets-2030-greenhouse-gas-pollution-reduction-target-aimed-at-creating-good-paying-union-jobs-and-securing-u-s-leadership-on-clean-energy-technologies/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">President Biden\u003c/a> upping the ante to cut America’s greenhouse emissions before it’s too late, or this \u003ca href=\"https://grist.org/climate-tipping-points-amazon-greenland-boreal-forest/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Grist article\u003c/a> about the way that wildfires, melting polar caps, and greenhouse emissions work in tandem to push one another to a globally destructive tipping point of no return.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Do you see why nature can be stressful?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13897058\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13897058\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/IMG_3863-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Folsom Lake life guard towers in the foreground, way int he distance is the lake's water. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/IMG_3863-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/IMG_3863-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/IMG_3863-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/IMG_3863-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/IMG_3863-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/IMG_3863-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/IMG_3863-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Folsom Lake lifeguard towers in the foreground. Far in the distance is the lake’s water. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">A\u003c/span> few days ago I went to Folsom Lake, where water levels have receded so much that if you’re looking to engage in some water-related activities, you’ve got to drive along the dry lakebed for a couple minutes in order to get close to the remaining pocket of water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the park is attracting hordes of folks, iPhones in hand, who come for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.rosevilletoday.com/news/roseville/folsom-lake-super-bloom/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">lupine super bloom\u003c/a>, a wildly gorgeous royal purple flower that’s only growing en masse \u003cem>because\u003c/em> the water levels are so low.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few days after visiting Folsom Lake, I called a park official to check about the water levels. They told me this is the lowest they’ve seen it in the 17 years they’ve worked there, and this is the tail end of the “rainy season,” with a dry summer to come. That’s not a good sign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13897099\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13897099\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/IMG_5447-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"A field of wildflowers bloom on the side of the road near California's Lake Barryessa.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/IMG_5447-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/IMG_5447-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/IMG_5447-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/IMG_5447-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/IMG_5447-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/IMG_5447-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/IMG_5447.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A field of wildflowers bloom on the side of the road near California’s Lake Barryessa. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>About 95 miles west, near Lake Berryessa, wildflowers have blossomed where wildfires ravaged the ridges last year. The sight is a bit of a relief: Maybe nature can heal itself. Or, as I’m quick to think, maybe the new foliage is fuel for the next fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13865533/daps-and-hugs-im-moving-out-of-oakland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">moved\u003c/a> to the middle of this state in 2019, driving up and down I-80 regularly for the past two years (you can see why my back hurts). Around the midpoint of my trip, there’s a hill in Vacaville that I look to as a random barometer of how dry the area is. The hill was green for all of eight weeks, and has since turned caramel-colored. The fires are coming, and we haven’t even recovered from the flames of yesteryear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13897061\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13897061\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/IMG_0735-800x342.jpg\" alt=\"The grass on hill near Cherry Glen Road in Vacaville, turning from green to brown.\" width=\"800\" height=\"342\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/IMG_0735-800x342.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/IMG_0735-1020x436.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/IMG_0735-160x68.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/IMG_0735-768x328.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/IMG_0735.jpg 1023w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The grass on hill near Cherry Glen Road in Vacaville, turning from green to brown. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At this point, I might be hypersensitive to anything nature-related. I’m an arts and culture reporter obsessed with nature—because it’s beautiful, sure, but because I also know it dictates my areas of coverage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So now my ears perk up when I hear about the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1973805/climate-solutions-in-east-palo-alto\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">rising water levels in East Palo Alto\u003c/a>, or how people still await \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11872328/survivors-stuck-in-limbo-as-pge-fire-victim-trust-pays-out-50-million-in-fees\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">payouts from PG&E\u003c/a> for the utility’s role in recent wildfires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this week on \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2021/05/11/20-photos-of-oakland-pride-on-display-at-510-day/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">510 Day\u003c/a>, I made it a point to take a walk with my kid and romanticize this magical piece of land known as the East Bay. We hit that trail near Lone Tree Point in Rodeo, just to look out over the Bay as the sun set. But my whole “pride rock” moment of enjoying everything the light touches was interrupted by the thought of how, not too far from where we stood, over near the Carquinez Strait, toxins are \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTiLPrtAYlY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">leaching into the bay from a contaminated area\u003c/a> with each wave that crashes up against the coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’re gonna have to pay for that. We \u003cem>are\u003c/em> paying for that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13897060\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/IMG_6338-800x1000.jpg\" alt=\"A clearing in Muir Woods\" width=\"800\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/IMG_6338-800x1000.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/IMG_6338-160x200.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/IMG_6338-768x960.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/IMG_6338.jpg 819w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">I\u003c/span> don’t think I have biophobia or anything. I love being outside too much. But I can’t stop thinking about nature, and not in a good way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last Friday I went to Muir Woods for the first time. Jaw-dropping. It’s like a theme park where the main attraction is… trees. The air is fresh, the trees are ancient and you’re there caught in the middle, reminded of just how insignificant your time really is on this big spinning rock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most impressively, the trees tell their own stories. The way they lean, the burn marks from fires, the nibbles from insects and pests. The rings at the bottom of the fallen trees mark years of drought and heavy rain. Real writers, those trees are, publishing history every year—no writer’s block there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I stood under the canopy and wondered: How long this will be here? What will happen to it in my lifetime? And what can be done so that \u003cem>nothing\u003c/em> happens?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not a fear of nature that I have, it’s the fear of what will come of nature. And thus, what will come of \u003cem>us\u003c/em>. All of us. Stressed yet?\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"I keep turning to nature for relief—and it keeps reminding me that it's not well. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705008377,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":27,"wordCount":1169},"headData":{"title":"Nature is Stressful, Bruh | KQED","description":"I keep turning to nature for relief—and it keeps reminding me that it's not well. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"sticky":false,"templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","subhead":"With another drought, more wildfires and rising sea levels, is it even possible to find relief in nature?","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/arts/13897057/nature-is-stressful-bruh","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13897062\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/IMG_8986-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A dried shell of a former living creature at Lake Folsom.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13897062\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/IMG_8986-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/IMG_8986-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/IMG_8986-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/IMG_8986-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/IMG_8986-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/IMG_8986-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/IMG_8986-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A dried shell of a former living creature at Lake Folsom. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">A\u003c/span>mong all my \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/podcasts/rightnowish\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">other work\u003c/a>, I haven’t sat down and written a column in nearly a month. Writing droughts are natural, and I’m in the thick of one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leads for potential stories are piled up in my inbox. Anxiety is kicking my ass. Plus I’ve got this back pain that’s causing my left arm to go numb when I sit down. An inflamed muscle is putting pressure on a nerve near my neck, the doctor and chiropractor both tell me; likely a byproduct of bad posture and built-up stress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-13833985\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So I’ve been stretching, icing my back, and taking meds. Oh, and spending time in nature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I love nature. Luckily, my “backyard”—Northern California—is home to landscapes that look like the images on postcards they sell at gas stations. Unfortunately, this land also seems to be as flammable as newspaper dipped in kerosene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The peril this region faces due to drought, lack of investment in infrastructure and man-made manipulation of the environment is already one of the greatest stresses of our lifetime. And when you’re paying attention to the issues facing your outdoor weekend hike, finding relief in nature becomes a convoluted idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13897059\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 768px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13897059\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/IMG_1232.jpg\" alt=\"One of the many redwood trees in the Muir Woods.\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/IMG_1232.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/IMG_1232-160x213.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of the many redwood trees at Muir Woods. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Following last month’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2021/04/21/governor-newsom-takes-action-to-respond-to-drought-conditions/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">official announcement\u003c/a> from Governor Newsom that California is indeed in the throes of another “drought,” the \u003cem>Los Angeles Times\u003c/em>’ editorial board published a piece proclaiming, in essence: this isn’t a drought, \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2021-05-06/editorial-there-is-no-drought\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">it’s the new climate\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As if on cue, over the weekend the National Weather Service issued the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/weather-news/article251277629.html\">first red flag warning of the year\u003c/a>—a rare occurrence for as early as May. Sure enough, a number of small fires popped up around Northern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These are the things I think about when I’m out in the Bay Area’s enclaves of nature. Especially when I’m reminded of the bigger, global issue, through news of \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/04/22/fact-sheet-president-biden-sets-2030-greenhouse-gas-pollution-reduction-target-aimed-at-creating-good-paying-union-jobs-and-securing-u-s-leadership-on-clean-energy-technologies/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">President Biden\u003c/a> upping the ante to cut America’s greenhouse emissions before it’s too late, or this \u003ca href=\"https://grist.org/climate-tipping-points-amazon-greenland-boreal-forest/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Grist article\u003c/a> about the way that wildfires, melting polar caps, and greenhouse emissions work in tandem to push one another to a globally destructive tipping point of no return.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Do you see why nature can be stressful?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13897058\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13897058\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/IMG_3863-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Folsom Lake life guard towers in the foreground, way int he distance is the lake's water. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/IMG_3863-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/IMG_3863-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/IMG_3863-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/IMG_3863-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/IMG_3863-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/IMG_3863-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/IMG_3863-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Folsom Lake lifeguard towers in the foreground. Far in the distance is the lake’s water. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">A\u003c/span> few days ago I went to Folsom Lake, where water levels have receded so much that if you’re looking to engage in some water-related activities, you’ve got to drive along the dry lakebed for a couple minutes in order to get close to the remaining pocket of water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the park is attracting hordes of folks, iPhones in hand, who come for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.rosevilletoday.com/news/roseville/folsom-lake-super-bloom/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">lupine super bloom\u003c/a>, a wildly gorgeous royal purple flower that’s only growing en masse \u003cem>because\u003c/em> the water levels are so low.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few days after visiting Folsom Lake, I called a park official to check about the water levels. They told me this is the lowest they’ve seen it in the 17 years they’ve worked there, and this is the tail end of the “rainy season,” with a dry summer to come. That’s not a good sign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13897099\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13897099\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/IMG_5447-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"A field of wildflowers bloom on the side of the road near California's Lake Barryessa.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/IMG_5447-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/IMG_5447-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/IMG_5447-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/IMG_5447-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/IMG_5447-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/IMG_5447-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/IMG_5447.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A field of wildflowers bloom on the side of the road near California’s Lake Barryessa. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>About 95 miles west, near Lake Berryessa, wildflowers have blossomed where wildfires ravaged the ridges last year. The sight is a bit of a relief: Maybe nature can heal itself. Or, as I’m quick to think, maybe the new foliage is fuel for the next fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13865533/daps-and-hugs-im-moving-out-of-oakland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">moved\u003c/a> to the middle of this state in 2019, driving up and down I-80 regularly for the past two years (you can see why my back hurts). Around the midpoint of my trip, there’s a hill in Vacaville that I look to as a random barometer of how dry the area is. The hill was green for all of eight weeks, and has since turned caramel-colored. The fires are coming, and we haven’t even recovered from the flames of yesteryear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13897061\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13897061\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/IMG_0735-800x342.jpg\" alt=\"The grass on hill near Cherry Glen Road in Vacaville, turning from green to brown.\" width=\"800\" height=\"342\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/IMG_0735-800x342.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/IMG_0735-1020x436.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/IMG_0735-160x68.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/IMG_0735-768x328.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/IMG_0735.jpg 1023w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The grass on hill near Cherry Glen Road in Vacaville, turning from green to brown. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At this point, I might be hypersensitive to anything nature-related. I’m an arts and culture reporter obsessed with nature—because it’s beautiful, sure, but because I also know it dictates my areas of coverage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So now my ears perk up when I hear about the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1973805/climate-solutions-in-east-palo-alto\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">rising water levels in East Palo Alto\u003c/a>, or how people still await \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11872328/survivors-stuck-in-limbo-as-pge-fire-victim-trust-pays-out-50-million-in-fees\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">payouts from PG&E\u003c/a> for the utility’s role in recent wildfires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this week on \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2021/05/11/20-photos-of-oakland-pride-on-display-at-510-day/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">510 Day\u003c/a>, I made it a point to take a walk with my kid and romanticize this magical piece of land known as the East Bay. We hit that trail near Lone Tree Point in Rodeo, just to look out over the Bay as the sun set. But my whole “pride rock” moment of enjoying everything the light touches was interrupted by the thought of how, not too far from where we stood, over near the Carquinez Strait, toxins are \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTiLPrtAYlY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">leaching into the bay from a contaminated area\u003c/a> with each wave that crashes up against the coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’re gonna have to pay for that. We \u003cem>are\u003c/em> paying for that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13897060\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/IMG_6338-800x1000.jpg\" alt=\"A clearing in Muir Woods\" width=\"800\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/IMG_6338-800x1000.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/IMG_6338-160x200.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/IMG_6338-768x960.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/IMG_6338.jpg 819w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">I\u003c/span> don’t think I have biophobia or anything. I love being outside too much. But I can’t stop thinking about nature, and not in a good way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last Friday I went to Muir Woods for the first time. Jaw-dropping. It’s like a theme park where the main attraction is… trees. The air is fresh, the trees are ancient and you’re there caught in the middle, reminded of just how insignificant your time really is on this big spinning rock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most impressively, the trees tell their own stories. The way they lean, the burn marks from fires, the nibbles from insects and pests. The rings at the bottom of the fallen trees mark years of drought and heavy rain. Real writers, those trees are, publishing history every year—no writer’s block there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I stood under the canopy and wondered: How long this will be here? What will happen to it in my lifetime? And what can be done so that \u003cem>nothing\u003c/em> happens?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not a fear of nature that I have, it’s the fear of what will come of nature. And thus, what will come of \u003cem>us\u003c/em>. All of us. Stressed yet?\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13897057/nature-is-stressful-bruh","authors":["11491"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_2303","arts_835"],"tags":["arts_1407","arts_2767","arts_10342","arts_10278","arts_2832"],"featImg":"arts_13897203","label":"arts"},"arts_13890197":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13890197","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13890197","score":null,"sort":[1607710549000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"kqed-readers-share-what-got-you-through-this-year","title":"KQED Readers Share: What Got You Through 2020?","publishDate":1607710549,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED Readers Share: What Got You Through 2020? | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>Living through the year 2020 tested us. It tried our patience and nerves. It challenged us to find new ways to communicate and socialize. It upended our priorities, pushed our resolve and—let’s be real—stressed us the eff out, daily.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So when we asked you, our readers, what helped you get through it all, we were surprised by the outpouring of optimism, creativity and expressions of gratitude we received.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are just some of the things that got you through this endurance test of a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Virtual Community\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13890230\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 764px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13890230\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/12/Screen-Shot-2020-12-10-at-2.40.22-PM.png\" alt=\"Some of the magical animals of ‘In Shelter Zoo'—a project and website created by Michelle L. Morby this year, to battle the isolation of shelter in place.\" width=\"764\" height=\"485\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/12/Screen-Shot-2020-12-10-at-2.40.22-PM.png 764w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/12/Screen-Shot-2020-12-10-at-2.40.22-PM-160x102.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 764px) 100vw, 764px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Some of the magical animals of ‘In Shelter Zoo’—a project and website created by Michelle L. Morby this year to battle the isolation of shelter in place. \u003ccite>(InShelterZoo.com)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I created a global interactive project called \u003ca href=\"https://www.inshelterzoo.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>In Shelter Zoo\u003c/em>\u003c/a> to combat isolation. All one had to do was make an animal mask out of whatever you had on hand, take a selfie and send it, and I would add it to my conceptual art zoo.” —\u003cem>Michelle L. Morby, San Francisco\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sending postcards to strangers around the world.” —\u003cem>Julian Roque, Hayward\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Learning Zumba taught by a Canadian-born feminist anthropologist who is a professor at Amherst College. The classes are attended by feminist academics and artists from around the world. It’s life-affirming and shame-free with fab playlists!” —\u003cem>Jennifer Terry, Sea Ranch\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Virtual wine tastings.” —\u003cem>Janine P., San Francisco\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/defectedrecords/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Defected Records\u003c/a>‘ virtual dance festivals 100% have given me joy, hope, strength, community, presence, and serenity.” —\u003cem>Ruanna Rae, Bay Area\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The Great Outdoors\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13890280\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13890280\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/12/Jan-Richardson-800x600.jpeg\" alt=\"Jan Richardson's dog\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/12/Jan-Richardson-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/12/Jan-Richardson-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/12/Jan-Richardson-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/12/Jan-Richardson-768x576.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/12/Jan-Richardson-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/12/Jan-Richardson-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/12/Jan-Richardson-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hiking the hills with a dog: what could be better? \u003ccite>(Jan Richardson)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Faith that the next day would get better. The comfort of my dog and hiking the beautiful hills of the Bay Area.” —\u003cem>Jan Richardson, Danville\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To combat pandemic-related anger, I’ve been taking evening dips in the bay from East Beach at Crissy Field. In up to my chest just a few yards offshore, within a few minutes I feel rejuvenated by the literal shift in perspective and cold shock.” —\u003cem>Britta Shoot, San Francisco\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have ongoing, non-COVID health problems that keep me close to home. So my photography hobby has been a key ingredient in keeping things together. That and our backyard, with its birds and flowers. I’ve documented the backyard thoroughly!” —\u003cem>David Evan Hughes, Lincoln\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Rowing in the San Francisco bay.” —\u003cem>Demian Quesnel, San Francisco\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My bike, my engineer, my financial guy, my lawyer, and my priest. We ride bikes together. Sometimes 22 miles, sometimes 52 miles, even 102.” —\u003cem>Peter Wise, San Francisco\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Since gyms got shut down, I started doing ’80s aerobics interspersed with weight and dance routines on our deck overlooking Linda Mar Beach. With headphones, no one can hear my music, but they can see me getting down!” —\u003cem>Nancy Capone Beeman, Pacifica\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Artistic Expression\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13890252\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 662px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13890252\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/12/Screen-Shot-2020-12-10-at-4.10.38-PM.png\" alt=\"A selection of work from Meredith Steele's 100 paintings of Oakland.\" width=\"662\" height=\"659\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/12/Screen-Shot-2020-12-10-at-4.10.38-PM.png 662w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/12/Screen-Shot-2020-12-10-at-4.10.38-PM-160x159.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 662px) 100vw, 662px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A selection of work from Meredith Steele’s 100 paintings of Oakland. \u003ccite>(Instagram/@meredith_steele_)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Taking on a project of painting \u003ca href=\"http://www.meredithsteele.com/oaklandpaintings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">100 paintings of Oakland\u003c/a>. It kept me focused!” —\u003cem>Meredith Steele, Oakland\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Making art, even when it hurt.” —\u003cem>Katy Kuhn, Mill Valley\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Stuck in lockdown, bored to tears, I decided to dress up my front yard. The circle drive is bordered by two short grape-stake fences. So I pulled out my paint pots and got to work. I painted each fence to look like a row of colored pencils.” —\u003cem>Judith Morley, Menlo Park\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My mate and I learned a modern take on an very old art form: beading. I suggested it to her as a more zenful way to unwind from her stressful job. She was sold after seeing the modern works of people like Jan Huling, Betsy Youngquist and Nancy Joseph.” —\u003cem>Ann Morgan, Oakland\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I set out to photograph every mural on a boarded up business that I could. Inspired me, gave me hope, cleared my head and helped keep me grounded and sane. \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/plywoodmurals/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Check them out\u003c/a>!” —\u003cem>Hildur Carlen, San Francisco\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Walking the streets of Oakland with my young son, taking in all the urban visual information, which led to five new artwork series. So far I’ve posted 45 of these works on paper on \u003ca href=\"https://ivettevallejo.com/home.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">my website\u003c/a>.” —\u003cem>Ivette, Vallejo\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Musical Exploration\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13890281\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13890281\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/12/Matthew-Levitt-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Matthew Levitt's record collection\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/12/Matthew-Levitt-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/12/Matthew-Levitt-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/12/Matthew-Levitt-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/12/Matthew-Levitt-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/12/Matthew-Levitt-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/12/Matthew-Levitt-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/12/Matthew-Levitt-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">When in doubt, buy more records. 😉 \u003ccite>(Matthew Levitt)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I found a lot of comfort listening to my records. I bought some irresponsibly expensive headphones and practically doubled my record collection. I listen to a few albums almost every day.” —\u003cem>Matthew Levitt, Alameda\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Listening to the radio! You can be part of a community, while in your home or car.” —\u003cem>Barrett Jayne, Santa Rosa\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Learning how to play drums and starting a punk band.” —\u003cem>Meerenai Shim, Campbell\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I started a new label with my best friend of 15 years and put out an album in April. I worked on three albums and one is coming out in January. I discovered I have Aspergers, smashed petty beefs, and worked on my house.” —\u003cem>Muslim Delgado, Oakland\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have survived this year by listening to a lot of calming music, taking daily brisk walks where there aren’t a lot of people, following the science around COVID, helping my candidates get elected, and texting a lot with friends and family.” —\u003cem>Carol Akawie Schneider, Oakland\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Family Time\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13890282\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13890282\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/12/kittens-800x600.jpeg\" alt=\"Kittens fresh from the good people at the Sonoma County Humane Society.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/12/kittens-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/12/kittens-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/12/kittens-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/12/kittens-768x576.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/12/kittens-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/12/kittens-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/12/kittens-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kittens fresh from the good people at the Sonoma County Humane Society. \u003ccite>(Meghan West)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Kittens! After miniaturizing our April wedding, then moving, my husband and I got two kittens from the local Humane Society. They are such a delight and make us smile so many times each day.” —\u003cem>Meghan West, Santa Rosa\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The most important thing that got me through 2020 was being in a bubble with my daughter, her partner and my three grandkids. Seeing them almost every day and sharing our ‘buds and thorns’ about our day kept me sane.” —\u003cem>Aggie Briscoe, Oakland\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I recorded E.B. White books for my grandson. With the uncertainty of each day, it was sweet to enter White’s gentle world of curious and collaborating animals, and share it with a special child.” —\u003cem>Susan Giacomini Allan, Inverness\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Daily walks with my dogs, and my husband’s cooking.” —\u003cem>Barbara Thomson, Nicasio\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My neighbors and my daughter in SF. They did my grocery shopping and errands to keep my exposure (at age 90) to COVID-19 to a minimum. Good folks!” —\u003cem>Alison C. Fuller, San Rafael\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What got me through 2020 so far is our grandson who lives in London and was only four months old when COVID got worse. Our daughter continuously sent us photos, videos and we Facetimed at least 4-5 times a week. Watching him grow kept us going.” —\u003cem>Neelima Pandit, Santa Rosa\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"We asked how you got yourselves through this turbulent year—and the answers are inspiring.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705019748,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":33,"wordCount":1203},"headData":{"title":"KQED Readers Share: What Got You Through 2020? | KQED","description":"We asked how you got yourselves through this turbulent year—and the answers are inspiring.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"source":"2020 In Review","sourceUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/2020inreview","sticky":false,"templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","path":"/arts/13890197/kqed-readers-share-what-got-you-through-this-year","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Living through the year 2020 tested us. It tried our patience and nerves. It challenged us to find new ways to communicate and socialize. It upended our priorities, pushed our resolve and—let’s be real—stressed us the eff out, daily.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So when we asked you, our readers, what helped you get through it all, we were surprised by the outpouring of optimism, creativity and expressions of gratitude we received.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are just some of the things that got you through this endurance test of a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Virtual Community\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13890230\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 764px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13890230\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/12/Screen-Shot-2020-12-10-at-2.40.22-PM.png\" alt=\"Some of the magical animals of ‘In Shelter Zoo'—a project and website created by Michelle L. Morby this year, to battle the isolation of shelter in place.\" width=\"764\" height=\"485\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/12/Screen-Shot-2020-12-10-at-2.40.22-PM.png 764w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/12/Screen-Shot-2020-12-10-at-2.40.22-PM-160x102.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 764px) 100vw, 764px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Some of the magical animals of ‘In Shelter Zoo’—a project and website created by Michelle L. Morby this year to battle the isolation of shelter in place. \u003ccite>(InShelterZoo.com)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I created a global interactive project called \u003ca href=\"https://www.inshelterzoo.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>In Shelter Zoo\u003c/em>\u003c/a> to combat isolation. All one had to do was make an animal mask out of whatever you had on hand, take a selfie and send it, and I would add it to my conceptual art zoo.” —\u003cem>Michelle L. Morby, San Francisco\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sending postcards to strangers around the world.” —\u003cem>Julian Roque, Hayward\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Learning Zumba taught by a Canadian-born feminist anthropologist who is a professor at Amherst College. The classes are attended by feminist academics and artists from around the world. It’s life-affirming and shame-free with fab playlists!” —\u003cem>Jennifer Terry, Sea Ranch\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Virtual wine tastings.” —\u003cem>Janine P., San Francisco\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/defectedrecords/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Defected Records\u003c/a>‘ virtual dance festivals 100% have given me joy, hope, strength, community, presence, and serenity.” —\u003cem>Ruanna Rae, Bay Area\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The Great Outdoors\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13890280\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13890280\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/12/Jan-Richardson-800x600.jpeg\" alt=\"Jan Richardson's dog\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/12/Jan-Richardson-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/12/Jan-Richardson-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/12/Jan-Richardson-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/12/Jan-Richardson-768x576.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/12/Jan-Richardson-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/12/Jan-Richardson-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/12/Jan-Richardson-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hiking the hills with a dog: what could be better? \u003ccite>(Jan Richardson)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Faith that the next day would get better. The comfort of my dog and hiking the beautiful hills of the Bay Area.” —\u003cem>Jan Richardson, Danville\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To combat pandemic-related anger, I’ve been taking evening dips in the bay from East Beach at Crissy Field. In up to my chest just a few yards offshore, within a few minutes I feel rejuvenated by the literal shift in perspective and cold shock.” —\u003cem>Britta Shoot, San Francisco\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have ongoing, non-COVID health problems that keep me close to home. So my photography hobby has been a key ingredient in keeping things together. That and our backyard, with its birds and flowers. I’ve documented the backyard thoroughly!” —\u003cem>David Evan Hughes, Lincoln\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Rowing in the San Francisco bay.” —\u003cem>Demian Quesnel, San Francisco\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My bike, my engineer, my financial guy, my lawyer, and my priest. We ride bikes together. Sometimes 22 miles, sometimes 52 miles, even 102.” —\u003cem>Peter Wise, San Francisco\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Since gyms got shut down, I started doing ’80s aerobics interspersed with weight and dance routines on our deck overlooking Linda Mar Beach. With headphones, no one can hear my music, but they can see me getting down!” —\u003cem>Nancy Capone Beeman, Pacifica\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Artistic Expression\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13890252\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 662px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13890252\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/12/Screen-Shot-2020-12-10-at-4.10.38-PM.png\" alt=\"A selection of work from Meredith Steele's 100 paintings of Oakland.\" width=\"662\" height=\"659\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/12/Screen-Shot-2020-12-10-at-4.10.38-PM.png 662w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/12/Screen-Shot-2020-12-10-at-4.10.38-PM-160x159.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 662px) 100vw, 662px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A selection of work from Meredith Steele’s 100 paintings of Oakland. \u003ccite>(Instagram/@meredith_steele_)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Taking on a project of painting \u003ca href=\"http://www.meredithsteele.com/oaklandpaintings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">100 paintings of Oakland\u003c/a>. It kept me focused!” —\u003cem>Meredith Steele, Oakland\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Making art, even when it hurt.” —\u003cem>Katy Kuhn, Mill Valley\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Stuck in lockdown, bored to tears, I decided to dress up my front yard. The circle drive is bordered by two short grape-stake fences. So I pulled out my paint pots and got to work. I painted each fence to look like a row of colored pencils.” —\u003cem>Judith Morley, Menlo Park\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My mate and I learned a modern take on an very old art form: beading. I suggested it to her as a more zenful way to unwind from her stressful job. She was sold after seeing the modern works of people like Jan Huling, Betsy Youngquist and Nancy Joseph.” —\u003cem>Ann Morgan, Oakland\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I set out to photograph every mural on a boarded up business that I could. Inspired me, gave me hope, cleared my head and helped keep me grounded and sane. \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/plywoodmurals/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Check them out\u003c/a>!” —\u003cem>Hildur Carlen, San Francisco\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Walking the streets of Oakland with my young son, taking in all the urban visual information, which led to five new artwork series. So far I’ve posted 45 of these works on paper on \u003ca href=\"https://ivettevallejo.com/home.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">my website\u003c/a>.” —\u003cem>Ivette, Vallejo\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Musical Exploration\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13890281\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13890281\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/12/Matthew-Levitt-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Matthew Levitt's record collection\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/12/Matthew-Levitt-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/12/Matthew-Levitt-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/12/Matthew-Levitt-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/12/Matthew-Levitt-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/12/Matthew-Levitt-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/12/Matthew-Levitt-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/12/Matthew-Levitt-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">When in doubt, buy more records. 😉 \u003ccite>(Matthew Levitt)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I found a lot of comfort listening to my records. I bought some irresponsibly expensive headphones and practically doubled my record collection. I listen to a few albums almost every day.” —\u003cem>Matthew Levitt, Alameda\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Listening to the radio! You can be part of a community, while in your home or car.” —\u003cem>Barrett Jayne, Santa Rosa\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Learning how to play drums and starting a punk band.” —\u003cem>Meerenai Shim, Campbell\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I started a new label with my best friend of 15 years and put out an album in April. I worked on three albums and one is coming out in January. I discovered I have Aspergers, smashed petty beefs, and worked on my house.” —\u003cem>Muslim Delgado, Oakland\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have survived this year by listening to a lot of calming music, taking daily brisk walks where there aren’t a lot of people, following the science around COVID, helping my candidates get elected, and texting a lot with friends and family.” —\u003cem>Carol Akawie Schneider, Oakland\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Family Time\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13890282\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13890282\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/12/kittens-800x600.jpeg\" alt=\"Kittens fresh from the good people at the Sonoma County Humane Society.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/12/kittens-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/12/kittens-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/12/kittens-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/12/kittens-768x576.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/12/kittens-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/12/kittens-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/12/kittens-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kittens fresh from the good people at the Sonoma County Humane Society. \u003ccite>(Meghan West)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Kittens! After miniaturizing our April wedding, then moving, my husband and I got two kittens from the local Humane Society. They are such a delight and make us smile so many times each day.” —\u003cem>Meghan West, Santa Rosa\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The most important thing that got me through 2020 was being in a bubble with my daughter, her partner and my three grandkids. Seeing them almost every day and sharing our ‘buds and thorns’ about our day kept me sane.” —\u003cem>Aggie Briscoe, Oakland\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I recorded E.B. White books for my grandson. With the uncertainty of each day, it was sweet to enter White’s gentle world of curious and collaborating animals, and share it with a special child.” —\u003cem>Susan Giacomini Allan, Inverness\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Daily walks with my dogs, and my husband’s cooking.” —\u003cem>Barbara Thomson, Nicasio\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My neighbors and my daughter in SF. They did my grocery shopping and errands to keep my exposure (at age 90) to COVID-19 to a minimum. Good folks!” —\u003cem>Alison C. Fuller, San Rafael\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What got me through 2020 so far is our grandson who lives in London and was only four months old when COVID got worse. Our daughter continuously sent us photos, videos and we Facetimed at least 4-5 times a week. Watching him grow kept us going.” —\u003cem>Neelima Pandit, Santa Rosa\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13890197/kqed-readers-share-what-got-you-through-this-year","authors":["11242"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_11615","arts_235"],"tags":["arts_9535","arts_12958","arts_10126","arts_10127","arts_10342","arts_10278","arts_2832","arts_9581","arts_10416","arts_585"],"featImg":"arts_13890198","label":"source_arts_13890197"},"arts_13887988":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13887988","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13887988","score":null,"sort":[1602791436000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"craig-foster-on-the-underwater-journey-he-took-with-his-octopus-teacher","title":"Craig Foster on the Underwater Journey He Took With His 'Octopus Teacher'","publishDate":1602791436,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Craig Foster on the Underwater Journey He Took With His ‘Octopus Teacher’ | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":137,"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>A few years ago, South African documentary filmmaker Craig Foster felt burnt out from years of working on arduous nature films. Needing a reset, he returned to the underwater kelp forests off the southwest tip of Cape Town.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My earliest memories, my deepest and most powerful memories were of this incredible coast and diving in what I call ‘my magical childhood forest,’ ” Foster says. “It is one of the greatest ecosystems on this planet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Foster vowed to dive—without a wetsuit or oxygen tank—every day for a year into the chilly waters near where he grew up. The ocean was sometimes as cold as 46 degrees, but his body gradually adapted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Day after day, I slowly started to get my energy back and realized that there was this whole new way of looking at this underwater forest. And I started to come alive again,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The waters were teeming with sea creatures, but Foster says his encounters with one particular octopus stood out. Over a series of dives, the octopus began coming out of her den to hunt or explore while Foster watched.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s when I realized: This animal trusts me. She no longer sees me as a threat, and her fear changes to curiosity,” he says. “That’s when the real excitement comes and you think, ‘Oh, my goodness, I’m being let into the secret world of this wild animal’—and that’s when you feel on fire.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Foster chronicles his underwater encounters in the kelp forest in the new Netflix film, \u003cem>My Octopus Teacher,\u003c/em> and the book, \u003ca href=\"https://seachangeproject.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Sea Change\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3s0LTDhqe5A\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Interview highlights \u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On the dangers of diving off the western cape of South Africa \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s called the “Cape of Storms” for a good reason—enormous waves and some of the biggest surfing waves in the world. And people are scared of sharks and big animals and that kind of thing, which aren’t actually really a danger at all. But the one thing that is very dangerous are these enormous seas. And I have come very close a few times to losing my life and I’ve been sucked into underwater caves. … So if you’re dedicated to diving every day, especially, you have to be very, very careful and try to read the weather very well, try to read the currents and then don’t venture into those very dangerous places during those times. There’s always some little place you can find to get in, which is relatively safe, but it took a while to learn exactly how to do that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On why he chooses to free dive—without a wetsuit or oxygen—in these extremely cold waters \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You feel alive, you feel awake, you feel stimulated. But because you can feel that water on your skin, you can feel the slight temperature differences, you feel much closer to nature. You feel more amphibious, in a way. I like to ponder on the amphibious nature of our humanness and diving in this way, with this method, brings out that amphibious nature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At first, it took me quite a long time [to get used to the cold]. … I remember shivering for about a year, every day. And then one day, I just stopped shivering and I was like, “Wow, my body is getting used to this. I can thermoregulate.” And I slowly started to figure out how to keep comfortable and keep warm. And of course, your body adapts. But the interesting thing is, if I’ve had a bad day or I haven’t slept well or I’ve had an injury, I go in the water and it’s very difficult for me to thermoregulate. If I’ve had a great day, I’ve slept well, I’m feeling strong, I can stay in for a very long time, up to two hours. But if I’m compromised mentally, I can sometimes be cold within 20 minutes. … I’ve noticed exactly the same with other people. The cold is a kind of a mirror to how you are feeling mentally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On what it’s like diving inside the underwater kelp forest \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s truly like being in an underwater forest. … It’s like being in this magical other world that is very different to any world that you might have seen on land, and [there are] animals living in all different levels of the forest. A coral reef is two dimensional in comparison in many ways, and there’s tremendous biodiversity and very exotic animals. And because there’s so many predators, many of these animals are very, very cryptic. So you can easily dive in a forest … and not see an animal that’s been watching you almost every day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The excitement for me has been to slowly uncover the secret lives of many of these cryptic animals. My incredible octopus teacher, she helped me in many ways to uncover many of those lives, because she’s in the middle of this food web. And to know her, you have to know so many animals that she preys on, and of course her predators as well, and then all the scavengers that come to her den. She’s this amazing teacher in many ways for the other lives of the animals in the forest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13887989\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13887989\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/my-octopus-teacher_octous-walking_craig-foster_wide-bb00e7137b272974cd82f31538c650336bc6edb5-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"The octopus that Craig Foster bonded with while making the 'My Octopus Teacher' documentary.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“The excitement for me has been to slowly uncover the secret lives of many of these cryptic animals,” says Craig Foster. “My incredible octopus teacher, she helped me in many ways to uncover many of those lives, because she’s in the middle of this food web.” \u003ccite>(Netflix)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> On the octopus “armoring” by covering herself in rocks \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What I found is that octopus, they’ve got all sorts of ways of dealing with predators. And of course, you’d have known about the inking, you know about the whole camouflage and everything. But one of the last resorts that they do, if they’re in the right kind of environment, they will suddenly, very, very quickly pick up up to 70 shells and stones and sometimes even bits of algae and cover their whole body with them by turning their arms over their head because the head is the very sensitive part of an octopus anatomy. And if a predator bites or interferes with the head, there’s often a really big problem. So with the suckers, they pick up all these pieces and then in a very short space of time—in seconds—they cover themselves and they’re suddenly armored.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On what octopus suckers feel like on your skin \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You’d be surprised how incredibly powerful the suction is, and they are covered in a kind of octopus slime that makes it adhere more strongly, but they are very, very strong. I mean, if you try and pull directly back when that animal is holding you, it’s really very, very difficult and you’d have to force it. So you have to gently twist and turn if you need to go up to have a breath of air, because you don’t want to pull too hard on that animal. So you have to kind of curl and twist to break that incredibly powerful suction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On watching the octopus begin to decline \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was obviously difficult. You get close to an animal like this and I was certainly dreading [her death]. But at the same time, I guess in some ways it’s better than a human death, because it’s quite merciful. It’s quite short. … When she gets to the end of her life, she becomes senescent, senile. So her brain starts to not work so well. So she’s not fully aware of what’s going on, and that brought some comfort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On still visiting the octopus’ den after her death and feeling her presence \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She had a few dens but her main den, where she spent most of the time, I went to visit that den today, this morning. It’s a great feeling to go there. I just dive down and kind of silently thank her for this incredible teaching that she’s given me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What happens is once she moves out of the den, it soon fills up completely with sand. So it’s basically just a rock edge. But what’s so interesting is that other octopuses seem to be able to somehow sense exactly where she’s denned and they have made a den in exactly that same place. I’ve seen this at other sites as well. … Maybe they [have] some incredible ability to smell, because then they have to excavate and dig the whole den up; there’s no sign of it having been there. I’m sure in a few weeks or a month I will find another octopus in exactly that same place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Lauren Krenzel and Thea Chaloner produced and edited this interview for broadcast. Bridget Bentz, Molly Seavy-Nesper and Beth Novey adapted it for the Web.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2020 Fresh Air. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/programs/fresh-air/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fresh Air\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Filmmaker+Finds+An+Unlikely+Underwater+Friend+In+%27My+Octopus+Teacher%27+&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Foster bonded with the creature while taking daily dives in the sea near Cape Town, and documenting it for a Netflix film.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705019980,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":27,"wordCount":1608},"headData":{"title":"Craig Foster on the Underwater Journey He Took With His 'Octopus Teacher' | KQED","description":"Foster bonded with the creature while taking daily dives in the sea near Cape Town, and documenting it for a Netflix film.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"sticky":false,"nprByline":"Sam Briger","nprImageAgency":"Netflix","nprStoryId":"923915545","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=923915545&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"https://www.npr.org/2020/10/15/923915545/filmmaker-finds-an-unlikely-underwater-friend-in-my-octopus-teacher?ft=nprml&f=923915545","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Thu, 15 Oct 2020 13:28:00 -0400","nprStoryDate":"Thu, 15 Oct 2020 12:33:00 -0400","nprLastModifiedDate":"Thu, 15 Oct 2020 13:26:00 -0400","nprAudio":"https://ondemand.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/fa/2020/10/20201015_fa_01.mp3?orgId=427869011&topicId=1132&d=2214&p=13&story=923915545&ft=nprml&f=923915545","nprAudioM3u":"http://api.npr.org/m3u/1924028064-330667.m3u?orgId=427869011&topicId=1132&d=2214&p=13&story=923915545&ft=nprml&f=923915545","templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","path":"/arts/13887988/craig-foster-on-the-underwater-journey-he-took-with-his-octopus-teacher","audioUrl":"https://ondemand.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/fa/2020/10/20201015_fa_01.mp3?orgId=427869011&topicId=1132&d=2214&p=13&story=923915545&ft=nprml&f=923915545","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A few years ago, South African documentary filmmaker Craig Foster felt burnt out from years of working on arduous nature films. Needing a reset, he returned to the underwater kelp forests off the southwest tip of Cape Town.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My earliest memories, my deepest and most powerful memories were of this incredible coast and diving in what I call ‘my magical childhood forest,’ ” Foster says. “It is one of the greatest ecosystems on this planet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Foster vowed to dive—without a wetsuit or oxygen tank—every day for a year into the chilly waters near where he grew up. The ocean was sometimes as cold as 46 degrees, but his body gradually adapted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Day after day, I slowly started to get my energy back and realized that there was this whole new way of looking at this underwater forest. And I started to come alive again,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The waters were teeming with sea creatures, but Foster says his encounters with one particular octopus stood out. Over a series of dives, the octopus began coming out of her den to hunt or explore while Foster watched.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s when I realized: This animal trusts me. She no longer sees me as a threat, and her fear changes to curiosity,” he says. “That’s when the real excitement comes and you think, ‘Oh, my goodness, I’m being let into the secret world of this wild animal’—and that’s when you feel on fire.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Foster chronicles his underwater encounters in the kelp forest in the new Netflix film, \u003cem>My Octopus Teacher,\u003c/em> and the book, \u003ca href=\"https://seachangeproject.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Sea Change\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/3s0LTDhqe5A'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/3s0LTDhqe5A'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003chr>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Interview highlights \u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On the dangers of diving off the western cape of South Africa \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s called the “Cape of Storms” for a good reason—enormous waves and some of the biggest surfing waves in the world. And people are scared of sharks and big animals and that kind of thing, which aren’t actually really a danger at all. But the one thing that is very dangerous are these enormous seas. And I have come very close a few times to losing my life and I’ve been sucked into underwater caves. … So if you’re dedicated to diving every day, especially, you have to be very, very careful and try to read the weather very well, try to read the currents and then don’t venture into those very dangerous places during those times. There’s always some little place you can find to get in, which is relatively safe, but it took a while to learn exactly how to do that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On why he chooses to free dive—without a wetsuit or oxygen—in these extremely cold waters \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You feel alive, you feel awake, you feel stimulated. But because you can feel that water on your skin, you can feel the slight temperature differences, you feel much closer to nature. You feel more amphibious, in a way. I like to ponder on the amphibious nature of our humanness and diving in this way, with this method, brings out that amphibious nature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At first, it took me quite a long time [to get used to the cold]. … I remember shivering for about a year, every day. And then one day, I just stopped shivering and I was like, “Wow, my body is getting used to this. I can thermoregulate.” And I slowly started to figure out how to keep comfortable and keep warm. And of course, your body adapts. But the interesting thing is, if I’ve had a bad day or I haven’t slept well or I’ve had an injury, I go in the water and it’s very difficult for me to thermoregulate. If I’ve had a great day, I’ve slept well, I’m feeling strong, I can stay in for a very long time, up to two hours. But if I’m compromised mentally, I can sometimes be cold within 20 minutes. … I’ve noticed exactly the same with other people. The cold is a kind of a mirror to how you are feeling mentally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On what it’s like diving inside the underwater kelp forest \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s truly like being in an underwater forest. … It’s like being in this magical other world that is very different to any world that you might have seen on land, and [there are] animals living in all different levels of the forest. A coral reef is two dimensional in comparison in many ways, and there’s tremendous biodiversity and very exotic animals. And because there’s so many predators, many of these animals are very, very cryptic. So you can easily dive in a forest … and not see an animal that’s been watching you almost every day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The excitement for me has been to slowly uncover the secret lives of many of these cryptic animals. My incredible octopus teacher, she helped me in many ways to uncover many of those lives, because she’s in the middle of this food web. And to know her, you have to know so many animals that she preys on, and of course her predators as well, and then all the scavengers that come to her den. She’s this amazing teacher in many ways for the other lives of the animals in the forest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13887989\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13887989\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/my-octopus-teacher_octous-walking_craig-foster_wide-bb00e7137b272974cd82f31538c650336bc6edb5-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"The octopus that Craig Foster bonded with while making the 'My Octopus Teacher' documentary.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“The excitement for me has been to slowly uncover the secret lives of many of these cryptic animals,” says Craig Foster. “My incredible octopus teacher, she helped me in many ways to uncover many of those lives, because she’s in the middle of this food web.” \u003ccite>(Netflix)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> On the octopus “armoring” by covering herself in rocks \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What I found is that octopus, they’ve got all sorts of ways of dealing with predators. And of course, you’d have known about the inking, you know about the whole camouflage and everything. But one of the last resorts that they do, if they’re in the right kind of environment, they will suddenly, very, very quickly pick up up to 70 shells and stones and sometimes even bits of algae and cover their whole body with them by turning their arms over their head because the head is the very sensitive part of an octopus anatomy. And if a predator bites or interferes with the head, there’s often a really big problem. So with the suckers, they pick up all these pieces and then in a very short space of time—in seconds—they cover themselves and they’re suddenly armored.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On what octopus suckers feel like on your skin \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You’d be surprised how incredibly powerful the suction is, and they are covered in a kind of octopus slime that makes it adhere more strongly, but they are very, very strong. I mean, if you try and pull directly back when that animal is holding you, it’s really very, very difficult and you’d have to force it. So you have to gently twist and turn if you need to go up to have a breath of air, because you don’t want to pull too hard on that animal. So you have to kind of curl and twist to break that incredibly powerful suction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On watching the octopus begin to decline \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was obviously difficult. You get close to an animal like this and I was certainly dreading [her death]. But at the same time, I guess in some ways it’s better than a human death, because it’s quite merciful. It’s quite short. … When she gets to the end of her life, she becomes senescent, senile. So her brain starts to not work so well. So she’s not fully aware of what’s going on, and that brought some comfort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On still visiting the octopus’ den after her death and feeling her presence \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She had a few dens but her main den, where she spent most of the time, I went to visit that den today, this morning. It’s a great feeling to go there. I just dive down and kind of silently thank her for this incredible teaching that she’s given me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What happens is once she moves out of the den, it soon fills up completely with sand. So it’s basically just a rock edge. But what’s so interesting is that other octopuses seem to be able to somehow sense exactly where she’s denned and they have made a den in exactly that same place. I’ve seen this at other sites as well. … Maybe they [have] some incredible ability to smell, because then they have to excavate and dig the whole den up; there’s no sign of it having been there. I’m sure in a few weeks or a month I will find another octopus in exactly that same place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Lauren Krenzel and Thea Chaloner produced and edited this interview for broadcast. Bridget Bentz, Molly Seavy-Nesper and Beth Novey adapted it for the Web.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2020 Fresh Air. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/programs/fresh-air/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fresh Air\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Filmmaker+Finds+An+Unlikely+Underwater+Friend+In+%27My+Octopus+Teacher%27+&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13887988/craig-foster-on-the-underwater-journey-he-took-with-his-octopus-teacher","authors":["byline_arts_13887988"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_74","arts_990"],"tags":["arts_13672","arts_2832","arts_3324"],"affiliates":["arts_137"],"featImg":"arts_13887990","label":"arts_137"},"arts_13885156":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13885156","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13885156","score":null,"sort":[1598053170000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"watch-luminous-blue-waves-crash-into-monterey-bay","title":"Watch: Luminous Blue Waves Crash Into Monterey Bay","publishDate":1598053170,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Watch: Luminous Blue Waves Crash Into Monterey Bay | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":140,"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>Despite the doom and gloom 2020 will undoubtedly be remembered for, nature has been making some pretty consistent attempts to cheer us up these last few months. First came the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13883399/dont-worry-that-bright-streak-in-the-sky-is-the-neowise-comet-not-aliens\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NEOWISE comet\u003c/a> and the Perseid meteor shower, and now Monterey Bay is putting on a show thanks to glowing plankton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s prettier than it sounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5ugV88_HTU\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The gorgeous blue bioluminescence on the shoreline is the result of \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinoflagellate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">dinoflagellates\u003c/a> under the water letting off tiny flashes—a defense mechanism from predators. To the human eye, the glow looks like a bright white, but cameras are better able to catch the blues in all their glory, especially if using a setting with a longer exposure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bioluminescence first started last weekend, as evidenced by this astonishing photo taken during the lightning storm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/GeorgeKrieger/status/1295086289843363841\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shoreline glow has been on and off ever since, depending on the conditions. 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First came the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13883399/dont-worry-that-bright-streak-in-the-sky-is-the-neowise-comet-not-aliens\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NEOWISE comet\u003c/a> and the Perseid meteor shower, and now Monterey Bay is putting on a show thanks to glowing plankton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s prettier than it sounds.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/x5ugV88_HTU'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/x5ugV88_HTU'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>The gorgeous blue bioluminescence on the shoreline is the result of \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinoflagellate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">dinoflagellates\u003c/a> under the water letting off tiny flashes—a defense mechanism from predators. To the human eye, the glow looks like a bright white, but cameras are better able to catch the blues in all their glory, especially if using a setting with a longer exposure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bioluminescence first started last weekend, as evidenced by this astonishing photo taken during the lightning storm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1295086289843363841"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>The shoreline glow has been on and off ever since, depending on the conditions. 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