Rule of Threes / Canal and Rivers Trust
Rimrose Valley Country Park, Crosby, UK
November 2021 - April 2022
Working alongside environmental activists who are campaigning to save Rimrose Valley Country Park from development. I hosted an action research project to explore how creative nature connection can be a tool to nourish ourselves, our community and the environment.
Together we explored the industrial past of the park and adjoining canal, our current relationship to it and our future hopes for the multi-species communities it supports.
To acknowledge the emotional labour that goes into caring for such a space, we explored embodied approaches for connection - deep listening, close looking, textural explorations, foraging and forest bathing.
With thanks to everybody who participated in the project : Christine, Shelley, Lizzie, Adam, Chris, Jim, Kenny, Arthur, Stu, Karen, Erin and Laura.