A multi-disciplinary textile artist exploring the intersection of ecology and grief, whilst developing a curatorial practice around the concept of the archive.
Exploring how we can reconnect our bodies back to the land and green spaces, creating visual and poetic languages to engage with ecological grief.
Touch Grass focuses on embodied cognition as a process of understanding and exploring how the act of being present in your body, specifically situated in nature, can be used as a holistic approach to processing ecological grief. This project explores how the process of making, entwined with deeply rooted rituals surrounding the body, can provide emotional regulation in response to grief for the planet.
Here in the UK, we are only just beginning to see the effects and consequences of the climate crisis, but I believe that it is important to become more conscious of growing anxieties and feelings of grief towards the loss of ecology. It is important to be equipped not only with knowledge and data that inform our decisions around environmental issues, but also by developing tool kits of resilience (Cunsolo, 2025).
In response to this, I investigate my physical relationship to the ground, where the grass flattens under my body to hold me and then leaves behind my silhouette; Creating a practice of physical and psychological grounding that releases tension and reduces anxiety.
This project extends an invitation to pause, breathe, and encounter these feelings as we re-learn how to connect with a lost love: the land.
The process of embodiment unfolds as I create, with my hands, at the loom.
My knowledge is woven deeper, the more time I spend here, the more my hands understand. Movement becomes ingrained.
I am learning that it extends outside of my body too.
I find that I am held by the grass and I am beginning to learn the sounds of each bird.
If I remember what this feels like can it ever be lost?
Does my grief entangle with love?
