Positioned at the confluence of environmental humanities, ecofeminist theory, and socially engaged art, the project invited participants across Australia to engage in a daily outdoor ritual of observation and reflection. Responses emerged through writing, photography and social media, collectively forming a dispersed network of poetic documentation and multisensory inquiry.

dan’s own daily writings—composed from her sit spot on Darug and Gundungurra Country (Blackheath, NSW)—acted as a central thread, weaving personal narrative, ecological attunement, and themes of grief, transformation and relational motherhood. The project reframed nature writing as a feminist poetics of place, where land, care and time converge.

The Nature of Motherhood invited a slowing down and deepening into everyday experience, positioning maternal attention itself as a site of creative resistance and ecological reimagining.