Weaving Wild Wonder
#weavingwildwonder was a collaboration between Artist-in-resident Julie Henninger and Danielle Carey.
As a community art project, it used the medium of photography, digital technologies and social media to explore concepts of connection, community, resilience and well-being. Participants shared photos of circles found during 2021 COVID lockdown, weaving together connection and care.
WeavingWildWonder has now extended into a curated series of workshops, including therapeutic art, photography, poetry, and zine making.
The #WeavingWildWonder project invites you to journey with the Wild Ground Community by tuning into the wild wonder that exists in amongst lockdown, grief, stress and overwhelm.
#WeavingWildWonder is a collaborative art project that explores the symbol of a circle to ground us in our current daily rhythms. Right now, our circles of movement are smaller, but...we have circles of family, circles of friends. Community. They can connect us and hold us, teach us. Comfort us. They mark cycles of time: days, weeks, months and years.
And they are so much more than this too...
Circles are:
Life cycles
Regeneration
Oranges (with brownie mixture inside, of course! ;-) )
Blowing bubbles
Woven baskets
Drawing with chalk on the pavement
Cups of tea
Homemade cake
Compasses
Firepits
Sunshine wattle blooms
Magnifying glasses
Splashing in Puddles!
The earth, the sun and the moon
What are circles to you? What circles and what wild wonders do you find in your world? ooooooo!
From the heart of winter, this is a gratitude practice to warm us as we weather these times. We invite you to join the Wild Ground crew in collaborative storytelling and art-making as we reconnect with a sense of play, enchantment and creativity to support our collective mental health.
We invite you to participate by:
Posting photos of found ‘circles’ as you go about your days, with the hashtag #weavingwildwonder. Add an Acknowledgement of Country by including the name of the Country you are on.
Tuning into the Wild Ground Team’s creative ‘circle-themed’ offerings of storytelling, songs, literacy activities and playful games that you can enjoy with your family or exercise friend
Sharing your responses to our activities and games with the Wild Ground community
Wild Ground has always been a creative response to a world in drastic change. We are driven to build connection and community through creativity, child-led play and nature connection.
During the last lockdown cycle, we paused our outdoor programs to offer Story Nest packages, which engaged, inspired and delighted children with nature crafts and therapeutic stories delivered to your inbox and doorstep.
This lockdown cycle finds us leaning deeper into weaving connection and community to inspire creativity, child-led play and nature connection online and in our family homes. We invite you to remember that you are ALWAYS standing on wild ground wherever you are… all land is sacred, and wherever we are we can acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of Country and pay our respects to the Elders. Everything on Earth is born from and held by life-giving land. We are animals woven into ecosystems. We are ecosystems woven into animals. We engage with our ecosystem with every breath we take. We are nature. We find ourselves here in the wild ground of co-creativity and connection.
As we are held gently by the gravity of the earth we can see there is nothing that is separate from nature. And we can weave stories of belonging, care, responsibility, relationship and responsiveness. We can weave wild wonder.
As you move through your day today what wild wonder might you find in your world? We can’t wait to find out!
xox
The Wild Ground Team (Dan, Julie and Caradene)