Hannah Heron is intuiting ;
remembering.
listening..
practicing love.
moving care~fully* ensouled* amongst everything*
honoring emotion guides. spirit guides. elemental guides.
creating and collaborating with species across spectrum* time~ and space^ for total liberation ∞
Hannah attempts to root into belonging by building relationships with the materials that hold their process oriented concepts in form. Most of their art is made with honorably gathered non native (catalyst species) plants and soil to make paper, frames, ink and baskets. The process is slow and reverent; culminating into a presentation of corporal questions and existential contemplations. These wonderings seem to circle around the themes of how to love and how to be beyond capitalism, consumerism and colonialism.
I am a settler on wiyot land. one small step i take to acknowledge this is committing to paying monthly reparations. I pay a monthly honor tax to the seventh generation fund ; which specifically goes to supporting indigenous women and girls of my locale. This organization was suggested by the wiyot honor tax website. The honor tax project has resources to help assist starting an honor tax where you live if there is not one already.
Hannah heron was raised by a languid wetland that seeped from sleepy Cedar Creek on Bodéwadmi and Winnebago land in Southeast Wisconsin. She played and molted with the four seasons, the mysterious compost that lived beneath cedars behind the shed, a two headed birch tree, peonies, tiger lilies, bleeding hearts, raspberry, strawberry, mulberry, people, dogs, and skeletal ash trees and stars.
She currently splits time on Wiyot and Nisenan land in Northern California, moving slow with the banana slugs and getting struck awake by the ocean wind of the pacific coast in Arcata, and mimicking river otters and restful lizards amongst the oaks in the yuba watershed of Nevada City.
Hannah is bridging psychology, ethnoecology and artmaking for the purposes of radical remembering through land and people tending. radical, in the botanical sense, meaning to spring forth, from the base: the root of a plant; and radical, as the social descriptor, affecting the fundamental nature of something, (especially social change and action).
Hannah has a few central practices; including paper and ink making from honorably gathered catalyst species [non native/invasive plants], daily writing; blending prose, poetry, song and beyond, painting as divination and learning, sewing plant dyed flattering, monastic clothes, singing community given circle and folk songs, and and making herbal and energetic plant medicines.
All of this life, inseparable from art, is meant for struggling, and loving: two blooms that stem from the same root.
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Current and ongoing projects:
a collection: suits of protection. Clothing infused with medicinal, dye, and spiritual extracts of plants that are marked with a poem stitched into the back, co functioning as a prayer to imbue the wearer with.
Teaching the methods of spiritually, ecologically, and justly gathering earth provisions through one on one sessions. Sessions introduce the honorable harvest steps written by robin wall kimmerer followed by a discussion. Then a practice of implementing the steps, the session ends with the participant receiving a healing grid of the collected plants and earth onto their body. The sessions are 1-2 hours long.
Offering a line of individual sheets and handbound journals of english ivy, european beach grass, himalayan blackberry, and pampas grass paper
In the R&D phase of making an herbal shampoo and conditioner from cultivated and honorably gathered plant relatives.
An art therapy process, bodymapping for belonging through partnering with plants.
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I am deeply grateful to continue on this path of growing in reverent, ecologically conscious, creative and interconnected ways of being. May my life be an offering of harmonization for earth.