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THE SENSE OF WONDER GARDEN PARTIES
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At the end of her life, Rachel Carson, the mother of the modern environmental movement, wrote The Sense of Wonder. Unlike her seminal book Silent Spring, which delivers a scientific and urgent warning, Carson’s final book is a lyrical and philosophical meditation—one that encourages readers to reconnect with the natural world.
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Carson asks: What if all children had a deep connection with nature? Might they grow up to create a world in harmony with it? Today, cherished places—a creek, a tree—may disappear by the next season. The escalating climate crisis has made these losses increasingly tangible, as many witness or directly experience the effects of extreme weather.
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The Sense of Wonder is a project that memorializes the natural world through community engagement and a multimedia installation, Analog as Nature. This work fosters collective reflection and support as we navigate real-time environmental change in relation to intergenerational memory.
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The first Sense of Wonder Garden Party began as a social practice of listening and making. Participants encountered text from The Sense of Wonder and love letters written by Rachel Carson and her partner, Dorothy Freeman. Next they were invited to explore materials and share a visual response. Environmental activists and artists gathered with analog devices, growing plants and photographic transparencies of images from the garden, and nearby Muir Beach. We projected images of the natural world onto existing surfaces like the side of the house and a screen draped over a trampoline.
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