LUAP writes for Artists & Climate Change about how childhood, therapy and The Pink Bear shaped his relationship with nature and his growing concern for the environment.
Beginning with the childhood memory of his father cutting down an apple tree, LUAP traces the role trees later played within Lone Soldiers and during Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, where they became a way of exploring isolation, vulnerability and connection.
The essay follows that journey through the emergence of The Pink Bear and into I Used To Be A Polar Bear, where travel and encounters with the natural world developed into a wider reflection on climate change, loss and the need to protect what remains.
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The Apple Tree
Artists & Climate Change, 8 December 2020
By LUAP
