Engulfed by wonder 🌊
I recently discovered Annea Lockwood while watching 32 Sounds, an immersive documentary film.1 Lockwood is a New-Zealand born American composer whose personality and affection for the natural world feels luminous. In one scene, she records the sound of a river from underwater then turns around to invite the film crew into this moment of focused, unhurried listening.
Lockwood is present to the world in a way I can't yet relate to.
From an interview this year, sharing about her sound map of the Housatonic River:
I’m hoping with the sound to draw people inside the river, so they lose all sense of separation. The river is no longer an object, it is something in which they are engulfed.
The way Lockwood engages her deep love for nature reminds me of how Jeong Kwan, a Seon Buddhist nun and chef featured on Chef's Table,2 described the senses while cooking: "body, feeling, perception, intention, and consciousness." An embodied experience. 🤲🏼
I'll have to write about this episode soon. Stunning.↩