Late last February, Westminster's Student Honors Council invited Hikmet Loe and Russ Costa to lead a discussion around issues of nature and mental health. They called the discussion "Embodied Landscapes, Embodied Minds, and Restorative Nature" and asked Hikmet and Russ to talk about their experiences in nature and links to mental health. Respecting Honors College tradition, Russ and Hikmet grounded this concept in texts, art and photography from around the world. You can see the images Hikmet and Russ discussed below.
Image Information/Credits
https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/1/1fa521c0-f451-41ad-b95a-11b649737210/-m2dBrJz.jpgAnsel Adams: The Tetons and the Snake River
Stock photo of the moon from Getty Images (https://www.gettyimages.com/photos/moon?family=creative&license=rf&phrase=moon&sort=mostpopular#license)
https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/1/1fa521c0-f451-41ad-b95a-11b649737210/NF3vJjw_.jpgTropical Paradise Beach by Belle Deese on WallpaperUp
https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/1/1fa521c0-f451-41ad-b95a-11b649737210/4-JqmaZq.jpgJoseph Turner, Rough Sea With Wreckage at the Tate Gallery
https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/1/1fa521c0-f451-41ad-b95a-11b649737210/_SsOyV8r.jpg
Kandinsky: Bavarian Mountains With Village
https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/1/1fa521c0-f451-41ad-b95a-11b649737210/Hnal2rkc.jpg
Sunflower: Luca-Postpischii
https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/1/1fa521c0-f451-41ad-b95a-11b649737210/n-s6y_Ui.jpgDenali (20,310') in the Alaska Range. [Photo] Bradford Washburn Collection, Museum of Science
https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/1/1fa521c0-f451-41ad-b95a-11b649737210/x0m2g8GB.pngAndy Goldsworthy, Pebbles around a hole, Kinagashima-Cho, Japan (1987)
https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/1/1fa521c0-f451-41ad-b95a-11b649737210/QI7NfqYr.jpgFrederick Church: Cotopaxi
https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/1/1fa521c0-f451-41ad-b95a-11b649737210/KlbxQZ67.jpgHikmet Loe: Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area, west of Las Vegas, Nevada, January 2020
Jeff Nichols and Brent Olson co-direct the Institute for Mountain Research (http://mountainresearch.org) and our 2018-2019 Mountain Fellows are Katie Saad and Naomi Shapiro. Our theme song is “Home” by Pixie and the Partygrass Boys. (https://www.pixieandthepartygrassboys.com) As Naomi likes to say, “They are awesome and you should check them out.” Special Guests: Hikmet Loe and Russ Costa.
