Watts saw Zen as “one of the most precious gifts of Asia to the world

a wild and bewitching adventure that argues for a mass restoration of the natural world - and a powerful call for us to reclaim our own place in it

The Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) London

It’s impossible to tag this compilation with one genre or two

Figuring Oli Genn-Bash Watts saw Zen as “oneFiguring explores the complexities of love and the human search for truth and meaning through the interconnected lives of several historical figures across four centuries beginning with the astronomer Johannes Kepler, who discovered the laws of planetary motion, and ending with the marine biologist and author Rachel Carson, who catalysed the environmental movement. Stretching between these figures is a cast of artists, writers, and scientists mostly