A COLLABORATION WITH

KANA LONDON

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The Sky Meets the Earth

Fire, Earth, Water & Air

Our collaboration happened in an spontaneous way alongside our friendship. Ana, KANA London, is a talented artist and ceramist whose work is profoundly sensitive and full of wisdom.

In our The Sky Meets the Earth workshop series we combine our creative and spiritual practices and share an inspiring experience to participants for a deeper understanding of ourselves. We work with the four elements in our astrological charts and, simultaneously, we work with clay.

Clay, too often regarded as the most mundane substances, truly contains the whole of life: Fire, Earth, Water and Air.

We explore the links between the four elements in our personal charts as and the ways in which we express, act, think, feel but – most importantly – the ways we search, get inspired, create work and live life by working with clay.

We consider this workshop a Moon ritual, as we always choose to do it on a full or new Moon.

Working with the lunar cycle gives you many chances to enact rituals of letting go. Rituals are a way to mark turning points in your life. They can be used to symbolically welcome changes in your life

We work with clay as a tool to observe our surfacing of emotions, characteristics of our being and challenges of our personality. It is a perfect reflection of our sense of who we are right now. Recognising those feelings and emotions, we learn and we meet ourselves. It's a mirror so soft that it softens you. It allows you to embrace, it allows you to observe yourself and embrace again. And most importantly it allows us to apply the change, and it teaches us how to change. You can slowly confront your challenges, you can stop and start again. And clay as a forgiving, soft, smooth material will kindly allow you to become who you want to be a little more or a little less.

Program

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First hour:

SKY // Madeleine explains the four elements from an astrological perspective, how our search for balance is often related to the lack or abundance of one or more elements in our chart, and how actively adding the missing ingredient can bring us peace, calm and balance.

EARTH // We use hand building technique for the first hour of our workshop, to reset, recentre and arrive. During the process of making ceramic vessels you will be asked to observe your palette of emotions, your thoughts and feelings, and write them down as we work. You will create a few pieces of work which will serve as important guidance for the rest of the workshop.

Second hour: We look at your personal charts and how your experience with clay is reflected with the personal amount of Fire, Earth, Water and Air there is in your chart. We look at what you’ve written and reflected and see how this connects, translates through your work and your experience of yourself.

Third Hour: With astrological guidance and tips based on your personal chart we will approach clay one more time to create a more mindful piece, made with awareness, gratitude, self observance, self acceptance, forgiveness, love, softness.

Final Hour: We delve into the Moon phase we are at, create a ritual together to align ourselves with our senses and embrace all the knowledge and experience from the workshop to release what is not speaking to us any longer.

Creative Idea: KANA London x Astrology for Artists

Location: Kana Studio, East London

Photography: A mixture between phone pictures

& photographer Ola O. Smit.