There is nothing else to do but take to the sea.

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