EarthWorks: Sensing Bear Worlds: Co-Existence and the Ecological Imagination
In a continuation of our work on International Bear Day, we invite you to stretch your ecological imagination.
Location: Main Campus, Cedar Forest
How might a black bear experience the CapU campus?
A bear's sense of smell is roughly 2,100 times more acute than ours — where we see a green campus edging into forest, a bear reads a dense, layered archive of scent: fruiting shrubs, the pull of the nearby Lynn creek, the memory of seasons past. In a continuation of our work on International Bear Day, we invite you to let that perspective stretch your ecological imagination.
Step into the CapU forest and experiment with watercolour as a way of attuning to what you might otherwise miss — the damp layering of the ravine, the textures and shadows that a more-than-human world is always composing around us. What might it feel like to know this forest the way a bear does?