For a long while I felt an overwhelming sense of stuckness due to a variety of reasons, and had a period of just making whatever for the sake/joy of making it.

But I'm now in a place where I'm building upon my MA research into environmental kinship and human:non-human creative collaborations.

I realised that it's a bit too much of a jump in perspective for most modern, Western audiences to get fully on board with what I'm pushing for (i.e. respectful, equitable kinship with the natural world) because they haven't gone through the years of thinking and feeling that I went through to get to that point.

Therefore, I feel the next steps in my practice are around creating stories, practical examples and aesthetic experiences that offer audiences a clearer and accessible 'route in' to nature connection. Folk myth-making, ritual and song now feels an important element of this.

I'm wanting to work on a few things simultaneously now (I tend to take a holistic approach of working on lots of differing-but-related-things and trusting they'll come together later):

1. Using myth-making within an outdoor, accessible nature connection amplification ‘portal’(sculpture-come-stage-come-altar) in which it’s easier to ‘hear’ the voice of the natural world better and be heard themselves by it.

2. Explore mycelium as a material for sculpture and set-building

3. Build my seed-ball back up again.

Full reflection HERE.