Completing my orbit

In 2021, I joined a group of artists exploring a post carbon world and followed a course on Resilience by the Post Carbon Institute. The What's Next for Earth group of artists journeyed together creating works on this topic.

As I complete my orbit around the Resilience course and the pressing reality of a world post fossil fuels, I continue to return to the simple question “Who am I?”.

Artists venture forward muster the creative courage to address an unknown. This creative lens is ever-evolving and overlapping with practical necessities and solutions.

So I am bringing light to what this journey has been about for me.

As I plant my garden, analyze the safety of materials I bring into the home, refrain from mowing down the small clover flowers that are frequented by our tiny pollinator neighbors, speak in front of town officials looking to change wetland zoning in our town to development, learn to build a straw bale home with a group, learn about permaculture, and recognize the complexity of systems we are always interacting with to do daily things like eat, breathe, and drink…

…I do these because I am part of the world, and the love I feel for my family has grown to include my larger family.

The realms that were once siloed are now clearly connected. The animal realm, the soil realm, the ocean realm, the forest realm. the imaginary realm, and many more are all contained in me, and I in them.

With that, I collected an oversized wine bottle that my mom gave me at a family celebration; some metal mesh from a local creative reuse shop; wire from my stash of broken jewelry that served to create new beings for my art in this series; and a floral framing wreath to help weave my love of gardens with my many community circles.

It was always going to be a lamp with an entire kingdom as it’s regalia.

Who am I?

I am a beacon.

and travelling with this inspiring group of creatives has made it evident the We are all beacons.

Moreover, as makers, we are beacons who makes beacons.

Shine on!