Healing
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I guess what I want to say about land is that it continues even after we’ve left it, even after… Read more.
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I met Scott LaMascus last night in Oklahoma City at McBride Center Writers, the generative workshop he and Aaron Pogue… Read more.
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The laccolith shoulders this inelegant sky, nothing to write home about, as if this weren’t home now but that other… Read more.
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Sometimes, you travel somewhere and leave something behind: the body of your pain, which is taken into so many mouths… Read more.
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My father had a tiger’s eye bolo that I loved. I wore it in grade school when we reenacted the… Read more.
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I don’t approach poems as therapy. I just come to them as myself. Poems allow us to reclaim our stories,… Read more.
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During Saturday’s Utah Poetry Festival panel discussion on Poetry As Survival, if there’s time, I’d like to talk about why… Read more.
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During Saturday’s Utah Poetry Festival panel discussion on Poetry As Survival, if there’s time, I’d like to talk about why… Read more.
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Trees don’t move in the wind. They’re moved by the wind, the way we all react to unseen forces, unseen… Read more.
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To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing… Read more.
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PROCESS
- Map and Research: Investigate the historical, geological, and ecological context of each collection site or reverse the direction, mapping sites based on ancestral and historical narratives.
- Forage: Gather natural materials ethically, respectfully, and with permission.
- Transform: Process foraged materials into custom mediums and physical resources for art-making.
- Weave: Track the stories held within the land, braiding personal, ancestral, and ecological histories.
- Create: Generate studies and finished artwork informed by the sites and physically composed of the materials collected.
- Limits: Not all sites will be safe or accessible, which means some spaces cannot be entered, and some stories will remain incomplete. An empty container can signify these omissions.
purpose
ethics
Responsible Exploration: Committing to mindful presence, permission-based foraging, and minimal-impact exploration on every site.
Meaning
Embodied Storytelling: Engaging in sensory, place-based creation that connects the maker and viewer to the specific location and to the physical earth.
Reclamation: Unearthing and honoring lost, fractured, or overlooked histories embedded in the landscape.
Material Transformation: Celebrating the alchemy of turning raw, gathered earth into tangible, expressive art.
community
Public Education: Sharing the ecological and historical narratives of the sites to foster a deeper collective awareness.
Active Participation: Creating opportunities for community participation, engagement, and shared connection through the work.
Dana Henry Martin 