The course
What does it mean to feel truly connected? With whom or what do we share kinship? Is it our family, community, our heritage or culture or something deeper within ourselves? And is there a profounder connection, a deep rootedness on earth, in nature, and in creation itself?
In this course, we will trace our intuitive sense of connection in dialogue with the place and the group as well as with materiality, craftsmanship and art.
We will attune to the natural environment through drawing and listening based approaches. Playing with scale, perspective, shape, symbolism and abstraction will be part of the search for imagery that visualises our observations and creates a conceptual language of its own. Translating these ideas into woven designs and dyeing yarns with plants for our own color palette will be part of a holistic, hands-on process.
By exploring the landscape with all our senses and sharing within the group, we will connect to the place and the moment while delving into our inner worlds of memory and experience. Across the week, we will embrace the gifts of stillness, slow flow, and connectivity and interweave our discoveries into a talismanic tapestry.