Dear Song Dog / by Sarah Ronald

Dear Song Dog ⁠

As the kind of human who creates things and tells stories, I made this animation called ‘Encounter’. Here is a story that I wrote to go along with this piece: ⁠

I want us to frequently sit alone in the black of night and to rely entirely on our senses to guide us back to communing with the natural world. The snapping branches, the leaves swaying in the breeze, the unidentified animal calmly sensing you as you sense them, the quiet flap of bats and owls, the grunts of raccoons, the distant coyote yips, and rhythmic crunching of four-legged footsteps passing by, the natural flow of instinct and survival, unimpeded by human hand.⁠