Thursday, August 17, 2023

Feature Artist : The Emporium: 'Riddles and Reframes' in September

 

Making is a thread for me, that connects as an umbilical, to land, waters and place. I am working, and playing, with the green folk who form bridges between Earth and Sky. Gifting us our breath. Dropping in with Echo dyeing, Witchin’ stitchin’ and also in my drawings, I open to these amazing beings and we who rely upon them.

Recent experience has brought felt impacts from destructive patterns of ‘development’. It ripples out upon all kinds of sentience, and the harm to life it can cause has devastating potential. I feel, we need to preserve and grow more long-term visions. For the web of nature we are part of.

Creativity, in all forms, offers up paths that can mend and heal in so many ways. Literally, and as a story reframing what is, or may be. I believe we can shift the tale of ‘profit at any cost’. Solving the riddles we face with one eye on the future, and the other on injoying the present…

 

                        Bit of a taster, laying out some of the work /play