My current practice builds outward from an investigation of internal experience, a creative somatic psychotherapy— functions of interplay with materiality, how language frames sensory perception, the transformations that generate meaning out of chaos—and locates these processes within the thoughtful body. I gravitate toward clay (wild foraged) and text to transcribe the memory of my psychological voyage.

C.G. Jung, concluding his essay that charts the potentials of irrational, unconscious psychic energy, says: ...the psyche seeks an expression that will embrace its total nature. How does the idea of a “total nature” evolve in today’s globally meteorological and ecodynamic intelligence? 

The proposition of my research, to the effect of exploring planetary-oriented somatic psychotherapy in creative material engagement, seeks a cognitive mode that, in contrast to mimetic identitarian assimilation, integrates multiplicity within the individual, where mind collapses into, and the self is seated within, a linguistically augmented physical body that extends beyond its form as well as its individuality. That is my paraphrase of Sam Durrant’s notion of Planetary Mimesis, which I am layering as a Latourian linguistic framework onto Jungian theory of mind. 

Some guiding questions include: Where is the permeability in cognitive architecture, through which a planetary mimetic germination might augment the linguistic framework? How does this study of consciousness affirm, and potentially exercise, the existence of colonially dismissed intelligences, as a form of postactivism (re: Bayo Akomolafe)? What is the co-incidence of a tacit material interplay (intuition) with its verbal rationale (articulation)?