On a brisk morning in early September, as the golden tendrils of a rising sun crept over the horizon, I made my way up onto the Moor. Over a stile and past a derelict farm house, I kept moving, drawn towards the waiting stones.

Black waves lapped up against ageing concrete, its taught skin cold and cracked with winter. Inside the fire was burning a slow and aching heat onto the wooden walls.

The moment my hands touch and reach at something, my fingertips understanding its language through minute abbreviations in an otherwise smooth surface, I begin to form a story.

In this article I have written for The Lissome magazine, I reflect upon how our inner and outer worlds are connected. How our intentional experiences within our body house can actively influence how we make relationships with space and become more acutely attuned with our surroundings.⁠ Both the photographs and writing explore themes of home as seen through the body.

We met in Berlin in black and white.
Or was it at four years old as we stood in a circle and sung to you.
Your tune was always lilting, but the words were like percussion,
Sounding without meaning.

Walking along a windswept beach, whose golden brow wraps its length around the land, I decide to look down and make the floor my story.

On the watery Pisces new moon, RNR Creative published our collaboration which showcases my photographs and writing around the idea of a ‘body house’. This project has been a labour of love since I moved to Cornwall in September 2018 and fell in love with the connection between people and the wild land there.

Our skin is how we experience the tactility of the world, a porous membrane of knowledge that allows us to communicate through the language of touch. The skin is a border space between the interiority of ‘I’ and the flow of the natural world.