Hi Friends,
July rolls on as I realise that two newsletters a month are sometimes too much for me. I really like to write when I have plenty to say, and life’s changing flows have meant a few less words of late. These letters will now arrive monthly, perhaps twice during a fizzy month. If you are a paid subscriber and this is disappointing, please write to me for a free gift.
A new thing for me has been crossing over to the dark side (AKA TikTok), which is a hugely overstimulating platform that I feel too old for…but! After experimenting with it, I’ve found it is quite a lot of fun as a kind of audio-visual sketchbook. That, and keeping an eye on my 19 year old niece (who is exceptionally gifted in the curious art of lip syncing).
Here are a couple of filmpoem sketches that I’ve made in nature, which have organically shaped themselves from writing, movement and filming. I am really enjoying these ideas and hope to work up to some film projects in the future. Making multi-sensory work is something I find very therapeutic, and hope that others may experience this in things I create too. These videos are lo-fi and lo-res, but the ease of making them is a whole new creative process.
These ideas are absolutely informed by the field of Authentic Movement, where a ‘mover’ moves in front of a ‘witness’. Sharing these digitally is inviting a wider witness, which is a different thing to doing this in-person, but interesting.
I am also following artist and researcher Veda Austin, whose work explores the consciousness of water. If this is intriguing for you, make yourself a brew and watch the videos on Veda’s website (watch the ‘We are connected. We are water’ one). The first filmpoem was written after a solo wild swim, spending time with the beautiful water at Hanmer Shropshire, and listening to what it had to tell me.
The last thing I’ll share this time is a new Soundcloud playlist. I have organised my recorded meditations, and hope to make more over the coming months. Let me know if you use these, and how you experience them! I love to hear from people, so do write back if you feel moved to.
Keep flowing, keep going…or just have a nap. Wishing you well folks.
Emily x