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Embodied Ecology is a concept I have been pondering on in many manifestations over the years but having landed on this specific terminology a few months ago - which snuggles into and wraps around so much of my work - I’ve become fascinated to dive deeper into what it means for the creative practice, and how we can integrate it into our everyday relationship to the natural world. For this reason I have started a new Substack to share some of my musings and findings as I explore embodied ecology as a creative practice. Join the conversation here.

I happened across the term via the Association for Social Anthropologists of the UK and Commonwealth and the American Anthropological Association, who describe embodied ecology as “a conceptual framework for describing a fluidity between bodies and worlds that foregrounds relations instead of bounded entities.” I adore the porousness of this concept, the worlds within worlds within worlds that it invites us to consider. How it holds multiple perspectives and centres the sensory, the tangible, the organic. More from me on how this shapes my practice soon.

Sycamore Sister triptych (detail)