Mesosanctuary

Mesosanctuary is a participatory mural exploring ecological grief and regeneration. Artist Kit Braybrooke launched an open call in 2022 inviting contributors to enter an intimate 5-step process of co-creation as meditation, where the personal and collective would meet.

I was one of the 22 participants around the world who took part in this project.

The space from which my contribution emerged is a wild, life-full and now protected piece of land that witnessed and holds the memory of the tragedies experienced by many people – including my ancestors – during WW2.

Through poetry and an assemblage of representative objects – a cotton handkerchief and a silver pendant – I expressed how grief and regeneration bridge different experiences – one is inner and personal; the other is outer and collective, making individual grief and collective grief converge and converse.

Through words, I brought my human voice to a much larger reality, made by all that is other-than-human.

Mesosanctuary was exhibited twice in México in December 2022 at 4S/ECOSITE in Cholula – accompanied by a body sculpture activity with Prof Ann Light – and at ARAFURA in Mexico City. It is supported by the CreaTures project, which explores creative practices for transformative futures, and has been launched in association with Art Tech Nature Culture, a global community of practice which connects creative experimenters across disciplines.