Cyclical Attunement

A gathering of cyclical remembrance

Cyclical Attunement emerged through years of listening — to the body, to the earth, to the changing seasons, to the moon, to creativity itself as a living and relational force moving through all things.

This artistic research journey unfolded through painting, weaving, poetry, ritual, movement, menstrual and lunar cycle awareness, ecological attunement, and embodied contemplative practice. The work explores creation as participation — a continual entering into relationship with the unseen rhythms shaping life from within and around us.

Through the cyclical nature of the body, new ways of perceiving began to emerge. Inner seasons mirrored outer landscapes. Creativity revealed itself to be tidal, having waves of emergence, dissolution, rest, longing, fertility, transformation, and renewal.

Cyclical Attunement lives through paintings, woven works, jewelry, writing, embodied educational offerings, women’s gatherings, and ritual practice. It remains an evolving field of inquiry devoted to the sacred relationship between creativity, embodiment, ecology, feminine life cycles, and the more-than-human world.

This work is ongoing and open to future artistic, educational, ecological, and interdisciplinary collaborations.

If this research resonates with your work, vision, or community, collaborations and future projects are warmly welcomed.

My research unfolds through artistic practice. I see art as a beautiful method through which knowledge emerges. Painting, weaving, writing, and embodied listening are the means by which understanding is formed. This work is rooted in cyclical attunement: an ongoing dialogue between my inner rhythms, the landscapes I engage with, and the more-than-human world. Through this relational process, creativity becomes a way of listening, responding, and participating in a living system of exchange.

Central to this inquiry is my attention to states of consciousness and embodiment. I track shifts in awareness, energy, and creative impulse alongside natural cycles such as the moon, seasons, and place-based encounters. A spiral-shaped tracking calendar, known as the Moon Pad, supports this process by documenting how inner cycles shape perception, receptivity, and artistic emergence. While grounded in my own lived experience, this practice points toward a wider understanding of creativity as rhythmic, ecological, and accessible through presence, attunement, and relational awareness.

My process is also informed by Indigenous cosmologies, ecopsychology, feminist epistemologies, and arts-in-health frameworks that recognize creativity as a participatory and restorative force. Before creating, I engage in reciprocity with the land—offerings, listening practices, and intentional presence—so that the work arises through this sacred relationship. Finished artworks are treated as witnesses of these encounters, holding traces of place, time, and shared consciousness. Through this research, I seek to contribute pathways for understanding creativity as a practice of connection—between body and environment, human and Earth, inner knowing and collective well-being.

My hand meets the ocean, marking the beginning of a conversation between body and tide. The living presence of water and my intention to listen to the more-than human Others that lie within the landscape of the Pacific Northwest is observed here.