Through wordscapes, drawing, digital visuals and workshops, my creative research practice explores a radical rethinking of entities and the relationships between them. Working through subjects such as the self, the body, trauma, the water cycle and urban natures, I explore possibilities for postcolonial, ecological thrivance.
Language is a lens through which we construct our worldview, and I am interested in how the English language may keep the self colonised by reinforcing rigid, binary structures through which we understand nature, society and our trajectories. Through creative writing and poetry, I challenge these structures, inviting fluidity, multiplicity and vibrancy into our ways of thinking, perceiving and being.
Ingesting material on Posthumanism and Queer Ecology deepens my awareness of the intersections between ecological crisis, capitalism and Western colonialism. These philosophies inform my practice as I consider how language, multi-species bodies and more-than-human relationships become sites for resisting dualistic mentality, and imagining consciously interconnected ways of being-with.