Jun 14, 2026 · 54 min · 14 segments
In today's episode, W. Scott Olsen speaks with **Oriana Poindexter**, an American-Italian photographic artist and marine scientist whose work combines photography, freediving, marine specimens, and…
Oriana PoindexterGuestW. Scott OlsenHostIn Wellington, New Zealand, there is or used to be an exhibit of a Landsat satellite picture of New Zealand.
And when the middle schoolers or the elementary kids would come in, they all instantly turned into Godzilla.
Yeah, at the aquarium, the first time I saw the middle schoolers come through, I was like, oh my gosh, this is sea lion energy in here.
You have a dream for a cyanotep that is, what, 100 foot long? Something like that? Tell me about this sort of bucket list thing that you want to do.
Would you want this to be one actual, you know, tree, you know, piece of kelp? Or are we talking segments gathered at different times?
So I, yeah, I just want to make a portrait of a full individual and that's, you know, they're very big.
So you've got 150 foot long sheet of paper sitting on the beach in the shade and you've got three minutes to lay it out.
In Wellington, New Zealand, there is or used to be an exhibit of a Landsat satellite picture of New Zealand.
And when the middle schoolers or the elementary kids would come in, they all instantly turned into Godzilla.
Yeah, at the aquarium, the first time I saw the middle schoolers come through, I was like, oh my gosh, this is sea lion energy in here.
You have a dream for a cyanotep that is, what, 100 foot long? Something like that? Tell me about this sort of bucket list thing that you want to do.
Would you want this to be one actual, you know, tree, you know, piece of kelp? Or are we talking segments gathered at different times?
So I, yeah, I just want to make a portrait of a full individual and that's, you know, they're very big.
So you've got 150 foot long sheet of paper sitting on the beach in the shade and you've got three minutes to lay it out.
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The Sardine Wall
The exhibit suddenly became a sardine swarm
A Full-Scale Kelp Portrait
A kelp portrait could tower over visitors
Watching Kelp Disappear
Her dives revealed a troubling ecological shift
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