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Podcast: Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley
Episode: Tree of 40 Fruits, Biodiversity, and Food Security Futures, with Sam Van Aken
Description: Sam Van Aken is my guest on Episode 64 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley.
Sam is a contemporary artist who works beyond traditional modes of art-making, crossing artistic genres and disciplines to develop new perspectives on such themes as agriculture, botany, climatology, memory, and the ever-increasing impact of technology. Sam works in the natural and public realm are seen as metaphors that serve as the basis of narrative, sites of placemaking, collective learning, and in some cases have become the basis of scientific research.
Artist Sam Van Aken shares the breathtaking work behind the "Tree...