The story of learning with a horse named Leo. Jolly Dancer (Leo) raced in Ontario before moving to British Columbia. He has his own experiences and a story that he tells through his body. I have come to know him through the expressions shared in using his body. We have rode many miles together and share in the freedom that is to ride and know a horse.
Design & Gratitude
Stacy Westfall is a multitalented woman. A “wife, mother and horsewoman” and if you haven’t googled her name – a total inspiration. She independently produces content that has supported me in my journey to becoming a confident horse trainer and I’m sure has done the same for thousands more. Her generous digital storytelling teaches lessons on how to fairly train horses and is so rich it doubles as metaphorical life lessons. I reached out offering design support and the rebranding of her podcast was born! It’s a total honour to be a part of Stacy’s journey.
CLOTH CULTURE
Cloth Tone, in collaboration with the Lake Country Art Gallery, has curated an exhibition opening Oct 3! The exhibition, Cloth Culture, brings together six contemporary artists to explore the tacit emotional and experiential resonance achieved through the active labor of material production and bodily awareness. Works by Cloth Tone (Larissa Beringer and Lindsay Lorraine), Beth Howe, Zoe Kreye, Tiziana La Melia and Holly Ward manipulate and engage with varying textile materials and time-intensive (slow) processes to produce a series of propositional works that value an underlying investment in labor, mobility, and self-engagement. Revealing a sensitivity to the inherit value of bodily experience, tactility and form – a certain vibrancy calls attention to these artists’ relationship to our basic human needs for tactile experience, meditative movement, nature and local economies of scale. In turn, Cloth Culture challenges our relationship to cloth, craft and consumption.
Muskwa Kechika
In northern British Columbia there is a very special piece of land that we experienced for two weeks on horseback.
Sonny & Cher – LIVE!
guild treasure
These pages are from a master weaver’s workbook. The book was said to have been created in Europe and must be at least 60 years old.
