“If you think you're falling, dive”.
Joseph Campbell
What could you discover?
I believe in an and/ both world. A world where we can be analytical and imaginative. Detailed and sketchy. Strong and gentle. That we need not choose to be sun or moon, but rather we can embody both. That we can try and fail and fall and stand up and fall again, over and over again. And that it's not only OK, but necessary to our own learning.
Through my extensive studies across the arts, movement and therapeutic practices, I have discovered that these spheres in which we orbit are not so disparate; that they in fact share beautiful in-between moments of coalescence.
On the surface, this turbulence of opposing natures can appear destructive. However, when we dive a little deeper we actually find that these natures are actually held in relationship through tension.
We find such meeting points, or ecotones (from the Greek Oikos meaning ‘home’ and Tonos meaning ‘tension’) echoed in our environments. From hedges to shorelines, river-banks to grasslands, these ecotones act as borders between ecosystems, encouraging biodiversity and dynamic overlap.
These rich, fertile boundaries exist because these 'opposing forces' come into contact. Like the brew that follows a ferment, so too are these spaces opportunities for kindling life from life.
We become who we are through one another.