Season 2 Episode 2: Ecologies
Hosted By Vanessa Warne, Natalie LoVetri, and Anne Hung
With Guests Kate Flint, Steeve Buckridge, and Willow Rector
Attentive to bees and beetles and the bark of trees and also to bonnets, artists’ books, and embroidery, this episode of Victorian Samplings explores relationships between living things and handmade objects.
Transcript
Read a complete transcript of the episode here!
Transcript created by Natalie LoVetri.
References & Resources
To learn more about Kate Flint and her work, visit this page.
Check out Suze Woolf’s Bark Beetle Book gallery.
See more of Suze Woolf’s work here.
Explore Elpida Hadzi-Vasileva’s art.
Visit Willow Rector’s website for more about her and her work.
Learn more about Willow’s SWARM collective collaboration and view UnRavel.
Find out more about Gallery 1C03.
Check out this page to learn more about Steeve Buckridge.
Read this article on lace-bark and constructed femininity by Steeve Buckridge.
Get an up-close view of the lace-bark bonnet discussed in this episode and read more about its history here.
Read the introduction to African Lace-bark in the Caribbean: The Construction of Race, Class, and Gender.
Victorian Samplings was recorded and produced on the territory of the lək̓ʷəŋən and SENĆOŦEN speaking communities of the Songhees, Esquimalt, and W̱SÁNEĆ peoples, and on Treaty One Territory, traditional Land of the Anishinaabeg, Cree, Oji-Cree, Dakota, and Dene peoples and homeland of the Métis Nation.
Our podcast theme is “Happy Jazzy Ragtime Piano” by Praded, licensed by AudioJungle; our podcast stinger was made and donated by Brandon Christopher.
Lace-bark bonnet, after conservation on a custom-made mount (1865). Photographs courtesy of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.