Earthed zine
Published December 2023
I was part of a 6-month ‘Learning Ground’ residency of 15 peers at Wild Things Farm in Somerset from Summer Solstice to Winter Solstice 2023. The residency was designed to nurture an emerging community of nature-inspired practitioners, exploring specific inquiries and regenerative practices.
Towards the end of the residency, we all took part in a collective practice called ‘the land speaking through us’.
I created some origami instructions that unfolded and invited us to find our own sit spot in nature, where we remained for half an hour to experience the moment. Afterwards, we were invited to capture our reflections of what we saw and sensed around us —and within us— with a short audio recording and selection of photos. Jeremy Le Fevre created sound-slides, and I compiled an excerpt of the recording transcript into a zine with photos that had been taken from each sit spot. The zine included a map of the farm marking the different recordings and sit spots around the land.
See the project website:
www.earthed.community/collective-imaginations
The zine was riso printed by Oxford GreenPrint using vegetable inks on recycled paper.
(below) origami instructions for our collective practice
(below) Riso images from the zine, collated from photos taken from sit spots around the farm.
(below) We each made a handprint using silt and ash from the firepit we’ve spent many hours around.
(below) the collective handprints of everyone on the Learning Ground residency
Discover more about the project: