Olafur Eliasson

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245 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 14 Apr

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The Nature Of with Willow Defebaugh · Artist Olafur Eliasson on Seeing What We’ve Been Blind To · 14 Apr 2026 podcast

And it gives you an opportunity to feel that being honest about your uncertainty is a strength.

It holds the possibility of you saying, I don't know what to do.

And that is my strongest sensation and statement I can give right now.

And that I find very fascinating because there is a macho kind of

operating system that seems to be the manual to everything in success.

That has to do with if you don't come across as a champion or something, if you're not fast and if you're not always sort of punching your fist in the table and telling everyone to do so and so and being, you know, like dominating or mansplaining, the opportunity here I think lies in let's just think of a different system altogether.

who was on your podcast also, wasn't it?

Robin Wall Kimmerer, who I think talks about the indigeneity traditions in various forms to not talk about it, but to talk about who, when it comes down to our relationship with the world.

We in the Western world, we would say, and I come from that world, we say, well, what is that tree?

That tree, nice, that's definitely 100 kilos of wood.

What could I use it for?

That's what I would say.

What can I use it for?

Where Robin Wall Kimmerer, she would say, who are you to the tree?

That's interesting.

I'm like, wow, am I missing something here?

And then she said, what can I learn from you?

And I, of course, got so touched when I heard this for the first time as to, oh my God, it's not about the tree, it's about me being blind.

So now, when it comes to being safe, it also has to do with changing the lens and to accept being blurred, for instance.

In an exhibition in Switzerland, one of the lenses was the way we think a dog sees things.

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