with Wisdom of Place Authors: Chip Sullivan + Elizabeth Boults

Landscape Oracle

Learn about the
Eco-magic that surrounds
you! 

The Landscape Oracle is a 30min reading
with the authors of Wisdom of Place.
You will also receive a copy of Chip + Liz’s
latest book Wisdom of Place!

  • Wisdom of Place: A Guide to Recovering the Sacred Origins of Landscape aims to help readers rediscover the sacredness of the everyday landscapes around them to shed light on the ecological imperatives of our time. Drawn from the union of art, nature, and metaphysics, it presents some of the myths and legends of antiquity as they might be recognized by contemporary earth-shapers.

    Through word and image we reference the ecological and environmental concepts found at the core of traditional knowledge, and provide a new context for environmental engagement that merges the spiritual and phenomenological with the scientific and empirical.

  • Wisdom of Place uses the structure of Tarot as a creative catalyst to explore the meaning and symbolism of nature-based beliefs and their expression as a landscape vocabulary. Similar to Tarot in its form and function as a story-telling device based on archetypes, the 78 illustrations in Wisdom of Place are artful representations of metaphors that help realign spiritualism with environmentalism. The book contains detailed explanations of each figure’s significance as a component of nature and of human imagination, revealing a comprehensive lexicon of sacred landscapes that will enrich the environmental literacy and intuitive capacity of its readers.

  • Chip is an artist and professor at University of California, Berkeley, who has devoted his career to promoting landscape architecture as an art form.

    Sullivan is the author of many popular titles in the profession, including Drawing the Landscape,Garden & Climate and Illustrated History of Landscape Design, co-authored with Elizabeth Boults. His book, Cartooning the Landscape, concerns the metaphysics of drawing and learning how to “see.” His art work has been exhibited in venues across the United States and abroad.

    Chip has received numerous honors and awards, including fellowships at the American Academy in Rome, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Ligurian Center for the Arts and Humanities. He was elected to the College of Fellows by the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture in 2018, and elevated to Fellow of the ASLA in 2020.

  • Elizabeth Boults

    Liz is a landscape architect and educator with over 25 years of professional and academic experience. She is co-author with Chip Sullivan of Illustrated History of Landscape Design, and has published numerous articles and essays on environmental design topics.

    Her distinctive art work embraces the spirit of place through innovative methods of composite imagery and has been exhibited at local and national venues.

    Elizabeth earned a master’s degree from University of California, Berkeley, and was a MacDowell fellow in 2009. She is currently senior lecturer in Human Ecology at University of California, Davis.

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