The course
What does it mean to feel connected? With whom or to what do we feel kinship? Is it our family, our local community, our heritage or culture? Is it something external or internal? And is there a more profound level of connectivity, a deep rootage on earth, in the natural world and in creation itself?
In this course we want to trace our intuitive knowledge of connection and its diverse aspects in dialog with the place and the group as well as with materiality, craftsmanship and art.
We will work with encountering, re-calibrating and tuning in 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 an imagery that tells about our observations and creates a conceptual language of its own. Translating these ideas into a design suitable for woven form, as well as dyeing yarn with plants for our own colour palette, will be part of a holistic process.
Exploring the external landscapes with all our senses as well as the interchange in the group will not only join us to the place and the moment, but also stimulate us to dive into our inner worlds of memory and experience. Throughout the week we will cultivate and embrace what stillness, slow-flow and connectivity have to offer in terms of expanding creative practice and interweave our discoveries into a talismanic tapestry.