From a place of deep gratitude and joy, I introduce you to a new vessel in which I will be working: The Kin Project. This ongoing project will be an artistic and spiritual research on the natural world, in which myself (and other artists!) will be guided by a different species every month. 

The hunger for this project has been growing over the past couple of years. It is an answer to my hunger to build connections not only based on wit, but also on experience and feeling. To slow down, to really sit and spend time with each individual species and build a foundation for long term connections.

So what can you expect? I am going to invite you on this journey with me, sharing the process that I will be moving through every single month. At the beginning of each month, a kin (plant, animal or tree) will be selected by nothing but organic curiosity. This specific kin will be invited into my days, to build a sense of understanding through hands-on experiences. Besides that, I will apply research through contemporary and ancestral knowledge. 

The experiences and gathered information will support the creation of an ode to the kin. Which might be, for example, a visual work, a poem, a song or a series of photos. However, you can also expect snippets of herbal or somatic practices that the kin of the month awakens. 

listen - learn - understand - create

At the end of each month, I will be sharing the outcome of the process, along with an article about the specific kin through a newsletter and right here, on my website. Alongside my individual process with the species, I am excited to share I will invite one artist every month to move through the same process.

After a full year has passed, I will be sharing the entirety of the year’s wonder and creation through print. You will hear all about that in twelve months. For now, I thank you for taking the time to listen and for joining me on this journey of interspecific and artistic kinship.

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