In October 2024, a group of artists and mycologists submitted a legal bid to acknowledge the Ecuadorian Los Cedros cloud forest as a co-author of a song. ‘Song of the Cedars’ was recorded in situ and incorporates the wind-ruffled leaves and local birds, monkeys and bats of Los Cedros. The notion of not only collaborating with Nature, but specifically recognising its contributions to creative endeavours, appears to be taking root across the world, shifting our perception of the natural world from subject to artist. A month after the Los Cedros bid, I met with British actor and artist ...

 

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