Care, Nature & Cultural Disconnection
How do the places we inhabit shape what we can experience and imagine?
Exploring places, relationships and the environments that give stories room to unfold.
In my own fiction, a story often begins with a place: an environment in which my imagination can move and the narrative gradually takes shape.
What do places make possible? When do they offer shelter, impose limits or become unsettling?
What becomes visible when we pay attention to the place itself?
Inside this catacomb
Questions We Explore
How does an environment give a story room to unfold?
When does a place protect, confine or unsettle?
What forms of life and care make inhabiting a place possible?
What happens when our relationship with a place is interrupted?
A place for the story
Shelter and constraint
Relatioships that sustain
Disconnection and loss
Exploring Inner Landscapes
For years, fiction has offered me a space to explore my inner landscape and my relationship with the world around me.
Returning to these stories, I am beginning to recognise questions that also run through my essays: belonging, care, confinement and transformation. The connections are still emerging as I revisit and develop this work.
Some of these stories have been shared in reading groups and online events. They remain part of an ongoing writing practice.
Continue the descent
Follow the connections between care, identity, loss and belonging.
