Forming part of my master’s practice-as-research, Moving with Nature was a queer arts, health & wellbeing project, held at Penpont in Bannau Brycheiniog. With a focus on embodied movement and visual arts practices, the project explored how nature can support queer identity, visibility, and belonging within landscapes where queer lives are often overlooked. Movement encounters with rivers, forests, and mountains were guided by the Moving with Nature card deck, offering creative inquiries rooted in queer ecology.  inviting more authentic reflection on nature’s fluidity, and the vital perspective this lens offers for the health of both human and ecological health.

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why was it important ? / gender/masking, look back at what emerged to tell a truthful picture. Talk about inquiry as to how we embody these concepts and draw parallels lightly between queer identities and nature marginalisation and how queer ecology might show a way to walk more gently in the world - need to read more and find my own way! be curious and exploratory. See aldridge. not calling nature queer but how queerness can...etc....Talk about becoming sexuality, gender etc.....in a world where messagaes still sat to be queer, trans, non-binary is wrong, we need to create worlds where queerness can exist safely and be authentically expressed and the insights those voices on the margins can bring.../ to make a space for those voices / care infrastructures are so urgently needed in our more isolated areas....

 

show and talk around more of the process within the portfolio

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Moving with Nature explored the possibility of queerness beyond the margins, and how cultivating greater sensitivity for our multi-species kinships might shine a light on the mirror of our own identities.

 

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