Paying Attention: Encounters with the More-than-Human World

artist Mary Lang, whose show entangled is up in the gallery October 2 - November 2, 2025 in conversation with author and urban naturalist Louise Miller.

Mary Lang’s photographs in entangled are a visual, visceral, atmospheric encounter with the more-than-human world. Louise Miller’s encounters are those of a naturalist, the result of an intimacy with a particular place, a pollinator meadow in the Arnold Arboretum, a 5-month undertaking where she has identified more than 150 non-plant species, including over 100 insects, who are supported by this 1.1 acre urban ecosystem. 

Both women are longtime meditators with a love of the natural world. Join them in conversation about how to slow down and pay attention, how to make intimacy with a place a practice, and most importantly, using the power of attention as a portal to the recognition that this world is vividly alive, multi-dimensional, interdependent - where humans have much to learn from the more-than-human world.

has been an exhibiting Boston area artist for more than 20 years. Her photographs are included in collections at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Fogg Museum at Harvard, the DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, and the Fidelity Corporate Collection, and in many private collections. She teaches meditation at the Boston Shambhala Center in Brookline. As a gardener, she has had an intimate relationship with the half-acre of her yard and garden in Auburndale, MA for over 40 years.

is an author, professional pastry chef, certified field naturalist and mindful outdoor guide. She lives, bakes, writes and searches for bugs and birds in Boston, MA. 

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