The Essay

For artist and composer Hanna Tuulikki, humans have more in common with the animal world than we realise. Hanna shares her vocal compositions from her short film Seals'kin - featuring the sounds of hundreds of seals on the Ythan estuary on the Aberdeenshire coast. Rooted in folklore, how might the lament of the seal be an opportunity for collective healing in the face of ecological grief? Featuring extracts from Seals'kin.