Over the course of summer 2024, I had the pleasure of contributing towards a series of workshops lead by Sue Walsh (eco printer). The workshops centred around the River Rye in North Yorkshire and engaged local inhabitants with rewilding the mind and body within the landscape.
An excerpt from Sue's Instagram:" The River Project - Making rivers, streams, rills. The River Rye in North Yorkshire has been the subject of the River project. Over 6 workshops, locals spent time in and around the river and its tributaries, its habitats and landscapes. We learned about many things, conservation, farming practices, plants, sound, our own responses and need for connection.The Project engaged people local to the Ryedale area. It ran as a series of outdoor, immersive, experiential workshops In 3 different locations last year to bring participants into a deeper relationship with our natural environment. Activities included grounding and movement, meditation/contemplation, cold water, making field notes, creating poetry and ecoprinting, conversation and connection, listening beneath the surface."
The workshops culminated in an exhibition, to which I contributed a new soundscape celebrating our discoveries, explorations and experimentations experienced across the summer's activities. The soundscape weaves together field recordings collected along the River Rye, voices from the workshops, flowing, crawling, scratching and listening above and below the surface to a microcosm of environments.
Photos By Rachel Rimell.
Photos By Rachel Rimell.