Cosmic Sensitivity and Holding Potential (MARY RAMSDEN)
Guest artist MARY RAMSDEN joins painter and producer JILLIAN KNIPE to discuss her practice via 'The Universe is a Green Dragon: A Cosmic Creation Story' by Brian Swimme. Published in 1994 by First published in 1984 by Bear and Company, it conveys a dialogue between a young person and a wise elder, exploring science, cosmology and spirituality. Mary and Jillian's conversation encompasses osmosis, nothing, after-images, noticing, protons, joy, cosmology, confusion, contradiction, unification, no-thing-ness, particles, universe, dragon, potentiality, transformation, electrons, stickiness, moonlight, quantum fluctuations, unfinished sentences, dissolving egos, close attention, contained memory, influx charge, generative nothingness, cosmic party, porous people, holding energy, remembering beauty, quantum theory, rowdy space capsule, potential for change, collective human consciousness, states of being and the production of beauty MARY RAMSDEN Pilar Corrias 'The Feeling of What Happens' 10 September - 7 November 2026 PODCASTS 'Critics at Large' The New Yorker 'New & Ancient' The Cosmos Watching Itself 2019 'On Being' with Krista Tippett 'The Mystery of Consciousness' 2026 'On Being' with Krista Tippett 'Psychedelic Science and Radical Healing' 2026 'On Being' with Krista Tippett 'John O Donohue' 2008 'The Daily' New York Times 'The Next Big Idea' ARTISTS Agnes Pelton Agnes Martin Alice Browne Barbara Kruger Becca Pelly-Fry Capability Brown Cecilia Charlton Édouard Vuillard Ernest Hemmingway Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Francesco Clemente Hilma af Klimt (The Five) Holly Stevenson Leonard Cohen Leonardo da Vinci Pierre Bonnard Qian Qian Robert Morris Tom Waits Wassily Kandinsky WRITERS + BOOKS Brian Swimme and Mary Evelyn Tucker 'Journey of the Universe' Brian Swimme and Thomas Berry 'The Universe Story: From the Primordial Flaring Forth to the Ecozoic Era' Brian Swimme and Monica Deraspe-Bolles 'The Story of the Noosephere' Brian Swimme 'Cosmogenesis: An Unveiling of the Expanding Universe' Claire Louise Bennett 'Big Kiss, Bye Bye' Italo Calvino 'The Complete Cosmicomics' Stewart Lee Victoria Chang 'With My Back to the World' THEORISTS + SCIENTISTS Antonio Damasio - Portuguese-American neuroscientist, neurologist, author Bernardo Kastrup - Dutch philosopher, computer engineer, author 'Analytic Idealism in a Nutshell: A Straightforward Summary of the 21st Century's Only Plausible Metaphysics' Christof Koch - German American cognitive scientist, neurophysiologist, computational neuroscientist, author David Chalmers - Australian philosopher, author, cognitive scientist specialising in philosophy of mind and language John O'Donohue - Irish poet, author, priest, Hegelian philosopher E F Schumacher - German-born statistician, economist, author Michael Pollan - American journalist, professor, author Neils Bohr - Danish theoretical physicist, philosopher, Nobel prizewinner Pierre Teilhard de Chardin - French Jesuit priest, scientist, palaeontologist, philosopher, mystic, teacher Thomas Berry - American Catholic priest, cultural historian, author ORGANISATIONS Institute of Collaborative Studies Louisiana Channel Melin Tregwynt