There is nothing else to do but take to the sea.
Collective Noun/Becoming Land Residency with Judith van den Boom
how do you understand the land / ecosystems / relations
how do you see the human and living world relations
what are processes, knowledges, languages, learning are stored here
who is this place? seeing land as living entity that we move and live with
what can we learn from the land, in terms of traditional and current knowledges ?
what methods, vocabularies, perspectives matter for you
what are local traditional methods to steward the land, species and balance
what are stories of place, or species
daily walk - ecosystems observations
walk around Port Alberni, studio, nature, river, diff times day, weathers, tidals
(can even be on the bike to the local market, or just observing, simply experience place)
daily recording - making with ecosystems
making as way of learnig about place
making, drawing, harvesting, printing, anything low key
materials, digital documentation, scanning, audio,
daily dialogue - information / informal/ tacit ecosystem relations
conversations - with you, informal, others, incidental meeting
daily mapping - ecosystem relations mapping - just evening/morning quiet reflection
journalling of words, contexts, languages, stories, learnings





