Artistic Research - January-February, 2026

Cyclical Attunement
An artistic research project exploring creativity as an embodied, relational, and ecological state of consciousness.

My research unfolds through artistic practice. Rather than approaching inquiry as something separate from making, I see art as the 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 broader 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.

In Progress…

This research is currently unfolding through artistic practice. I am exploring creativity as a cyclical, embodied, and relational process, shaped by inner rhythms and ecological connection. What is shared here represents moments along the way—fragments, questions, and artworks that arise through the deep listening this project entails. This page will evolve as the research deepens.

On the first day of my menstrual cycle, I go to the ocean and record the moon phase in my Moon Pad journal. This practice invites presence of cyclical awareness, aligning bodily rhythms with lunar and environmental cycles. Dreams, poetry, and recording of art will be documented here. It serves as a foundational ritual within my artistic research process.
This moment marks a threshold of witnessing where my body, water, and lunar rhythms meet. The act of witnessing and recording aligns to a sense of attunement, honoring the cycle as a site of listening, reflection, and creative potential.

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.