My creative practice as a whole intends to explore and nurture a sense of intimacy between humans and the land, a sense of belonging, home, and place; and through this, a deeper connection to our own naturalness, oneness, and fluidity/capacity for transformation.
I believe engagement with storytelling and folklores also helps us reconnect with ancestral relationships to the natural world, validating alernative retellings of history which focus on the fears, feelings, and experiences of the people, as opposed to dominant powers of the times. I believe we can learn about ordinary people in the past from stories that have endured, and we can express something enduring about the lives of present communities through such storytelling processes.
A core principal of my practice is accessibility, and interrogating the different ways this gets to happen in creative and commnity spaces. How can creative workshops serve varying sensory, safety, and mobility needs? How can they be receptive to the interests and autonomy of the individuals they are for? How can they nurture community webs? Help to foster a sense of connection to eachother, to place, and to the natural world? How can they help welcome in and uplift communities traditionally exluded from creative and arts spaces? How do we support these voices without sanitising them? How do we revalue and dehierarchicalise different paths of creative expression and play? How can we make the natural world more accessible to all? How do we rebuild that relationship in our communities?
Ruby. C. 