Season Three
Season three Episode three
Passion Project
Passion —it’s what drives us to get up in the morning, put nose to the grindstone, and accomplish great things. We’ll meet three people with passion projects of their own, touring Emigration Canyon with artist Carel Brest van Kempen, learning from the industriousness of bees with beekeeper Adesina Daniel Oduntan, and connecting with land & the universe through Nancy Holt’s famous Sun Tunnels.
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Nature in Detail
Local painter, storyteller, and wildlife artist Carel Brest van Kempen’s lifelong passion for art was inspired by the natural world around him. As a child Carel was the Davy Crockett of the Wasatch Mountains, roaming, exploring, and sketching the range’s native wildlife since he was eighty ears old. Today Carel paints wildlife from around the world, inspired by the wonders of his own backyard.
Hive Hope
Adesina Daniel Oduntan, who goes by Daniel, never imagined that his love for bees would one day bring him to the Beehive State.
Sun Tunnels
Sun Tunnels (1973–1976), by American artist Nancy Holt, consist of four 18-foot-long concrete cylinders arranged in an open x-shaped configuration in Utah’s Great Basin Desert. Large holes bored into each cylinder depict the constellations Draco, Perseus, Columba, and Capricorn. In Holt’s own words, the Sun Tunnels are an earthwork that “bring the vast space of the desert back to human scale.”
