Fiona Middleton

Concentration; a mineral gathering

Monique McCrystal and Deja Redman

Harmony (with the whole)

Naoco Wowsugi

The Sound of Zeroth

Riane Tyler

Your Deepest Ocean Meditation

Lily Cox-Richard and Michael Jevon Demps, Library of Radical Returns

Dowsing Bodies

Tifani Kendrick

Breath-Centered Meditation to Connect with Creation

GM Keaton

Points of Contact: Learning to Float

Sara Smith

When humans dive, are we marine mammals?

Five considerations as we breathe.

Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles

Meditation for Divers

Rachel Hilton

Air and Water

Brad Fox

Spectral Melt

FOREST-BODY-CHAIR at Mildred's Lane

Julia O. Bianco, Rachel Schmoker, Sara Smith

Acknowledgments of the Honorable Guest

Gina Siepel, Ainsley Steeves, Samiha Tasnim, Lotte Kliros Walworth

I Have Questions

Ruby Waldo

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FOREST-BODY-CHAIR is a project of RAY (the collaborative team of Gina Siepel and Sara Smith), using wooden chairs as an occasion to explore entwined ecological, embodied, and social questions connected to their construction and use. A three-week workshop version of FOREST-BODY-CHAIR at Mildred’s Lane in July 2021 brought together participant-fellows and guest artists for conversation and experimentation across somatic, greenwood construction, and fieldwork practices. Meditation Ocean was introduced into the session, allowing for additional associations to be made between forests and oceans, as well as contemplation of breath as an environmental process and metaphor. Participants were invited to develop meditation scripts collaboratively or on their own.