looping, knotless netting, knotted netting, coiling, twining 

ancestral memory 
brain slows to idle
fibres relax with finger's caress

familiar
process
timeless
rhythm 

fingers

sensing
unity
connection
space 

​spirals

slow
languid 
graceful
dance

We had planned for a trip to Australia in 2020.
We changed plans.
We changed destinations.
We went north, up to Cairns & Port Douglas.

My god it felt so good
to be anonymous
to be unreachable

to hear multiple languages
to not be able to understand
nor even need to

to be languid

to be warm
to see the sunrise at 6am 
to hear the birds 

to see people smiling
to see the families 
to be with my family

to be part of something & simultaneously totally separate
to be exhausted by the newness, the noise, the kilometres walked, the over eating

to sleep deeply
without dreams
without waking in the night

​to wake & feel free

to feel calm
to feel happy
to feel alive

to live in the now
​knowing there will be no interruption
no distraction
​nothing to do except be present 

I love Australia
My heart melts with love the moment we cross the coastline to arrive 
& melts with sadness the moment we cross the coastline to leave

i enjoyed the brevity of writing just 3 lines *
i enjoyed the staccato rhythm
like the sound of hail wind driven on to the windows 

watercolours are amazing
a few leaves picked up on a few walks
the process is alluring & there's a certain amount of serendipity in the outcome

i wonder will i ever be able to pull 'this' off
will i ever be able to bring 'this' together 
to be honest, i don't even know what 'this' is

'the ideas, the visions, the dreams of what's possible would not be in you if they were not for you. they are in you for a reason & they are yours to shape & mould & build & play with & tweak & adapt & iterate on' Tiffany Han**

in the end does it really matter
i'm gonna say no, not to the outside world
but to the voice inside
​it's vital

​xx Sal