A wind-sensing art experience and toolkit which helps people learn how to feel, observe and better understand wind.
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They say if you could see the air you’d never fly in it...
In 2017 I battled my fears and learnt to paraglide.
Through my paragliding journey I learnt the ‘language of the skies’: transforming how I see and experience air and wind. Learning to fly ignited richness: I found new ways of sensing and the lost art of ‘reading’ nature.
It took a while, and a shed-load of time and practice, learning to feel the whispers of air and signals from the wind.
As I began to understand this natural and often misunderstood element more deeply I transformed too: I felt primal - no longer separate from nature but part of it. I looked at the world in a new light: seeing, feeling and sensing the systems around me and being part of the natural rhythm and drumbeat of our living planet.
I believe, that the way many of us live: cosy inside our warm homes and bouncing between car, office, pub and our front doors we've lost our awareness of our living world. We frame it in fear, in 'the other'. Our ancestors knew how to live with nature, as nature.
Farmers, paragliding pilots, indigenous peoples and others who live close to and with nature have these skills and this way of being.
Perhaps if more of us did too we would treat the living world with more care and attention.
In 2017 I battled my fears and learnt to paraglide.
Through my paragliding journey I learnt the ‘language of the skies’: transforming how I see and experience air and wind. Learning to fly ignited richness: I found new ways of sensing and the lost art of ‘reading’ nature.
It took a while, and a shed-load of time and practice, learning to feel the whispers of air and signals from the wind.
As I began to understand this natural and often misunderstood element more deeply I transformed too: I felt primal - no longer separate from nature but part of it. I looked at the world in a new light: seeing, feeling and sensing the systems around me and being part of the natural rhythm and drumbeat of our living planet.
I believe, that the way many of us live: cosy inside our warm homes and bouncing between car, office, pub and our front doors we've lost our awareness of our living world. We frame it in fear, in 'the other'. Our ancestors knew how to live with nature, as nature.
Farmers, paragliding pilots, indigenous peoples and others who live close to and with nature have these skills and this way of being.
Perhaps if more of us did too we would treat the living world with more care and attention.
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Created for:
Beach of Dreams Trailblazer
Me, paragliding in France, 2019
