a ritual is defined as a series of actions in a prescribed order. Therefore, the creation of work can be ritualistic: Sketching ideas on blank pages as divination, making intuitive choices and letting dreams direct shapes and form, making structures with plaster and metal and letting hands and body react and inform choices to reflect on them after creation. I am interested in the knowledge our bodies hold, and in re-learning how to listen to the entities around us that we stopped hearing a long time ago: from mountains, fields, trees, creatures, skies and bodies of water to our own bodies. Growing up close to the black forest, mountains and trees have anchored me – the ancientness of the earth and her monumentally rising hills are a place of worship that I still rely on to centre myself and therefore my practice.