Kitty Hillier

Rockpool mind

Newlyn Gallery & The Exchange, 2023

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  1. E

    I rock my
    Pool, of mind.
    I, the crab, so
    defensive
    If only the shell
    brittle and bright
    could find,
    your rock
    Pool,
    and forget my own.

  2. LL

    “I feel that the need to look at the sky – at the moon and stars – is very basic, and it is inside all of us” Nancy Holt 1938-2014

  3. A

    Podcast: Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam

  4. Sharon Bruster

    deep aqua tidepool
    looking down I see soft clouds
    – sky held on water

    Writing haiku is a growing part of my art practice as I try to sum up the essence of my experiences and observations of the littoral space. Often the haiku become titles of paintings.

  5. Rachael Jones

    ‘Your body is an ancestor’ by Sophie Strand

    “Around 2.7 billion years ago free-living prokaryotes melted into one another to form the mitochondria and organelles of the cells that build our bodies today. All you need to do to honor your ancestors is to roll up like a pill bug, into the innate shape of safety: the fetal position. The curl of your body, then, is an altar not just to the womb that grew you, but to the retroviruses that, 200 million years ago taught mammals how to develop the protein syncytin that creates the synctrophoblast layer of the placenta. Breathe in, slowly, knowing that your breath loops you into the biome of your ecosystem…”

    https://braidedway.org/your-body-is-an-ancestor/

  6. KittyHillier

    ‘The Well Gardened Mind’ by Sue Stuart-Smith

    “Come forth into the light of things,
    Let Nature be your teacher.”
    William Wordsworth (1770-1850)

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I rock my
Pool, of mind.
I, the crab, so
defensive
If only the shell
brittle and bright
could find,
your rock
Pool,
and forget my own.

“I feel that the need to look at the sky – at the moon and stars – is very basic, and it is inside all of us” Nancy Holt 1938-2014

deep aqua tidepool
looking down I see soft clouds
– sky held on water

Writing haiku is a growing part of my art practice as I try to sum up the essence of my experiences and observations of the littoral space. Often the haiku become titles of paintings.

‘Your body is an ancestor’ by Sophie Strand

“Around 2.7 billion years ago free-living prokaryotes melted into one another to form the mitochondria and organelles of the cells that build our bodies today. All you need to do to honor your ancestors is to roll up like a pill bug, into the innate shape of safety: the fetal position. The curl of your body, then, is an altar not just to the womb that grew you, but to the retroviruses that, 200 million years ago taught mammals how to develop the protein syncytin that creates the synctrophoblast layer of the placenta. Breathe in, slowly, knowing that your breath loops you into the biome of your ecosystem…”

https://braidedway.org/your-body-is-an-ancestor/

‘The Well Gardened Mind’ by Sue Stuart-Smith

“Come forth into the light of things,
Let Nature be your teacher.”
William Wordsworth (1770-1850)

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