Weaving Wild Wonder (2021)

Weaving Wild Wonder was a socially embedded art intervention grounded in relational aesthetics and co-creative process by Julie Henninger and dan eleni carey, developed as a COVID-responsive project during the 2021 lockdowns. Drawing on participatory arts methodologies and eco-aesthetic principles, the project invited the public to document and share images of circles—found or formed—as metaphoric portals for connection, care and continuity in a time of rupture.

The circle, as both motif and method, served as a potent visual metaphor—evoking cycles of life, wholeness, containment and the interdependence of ecological and human systems. Through the act of noticing and sharing these forms, participants engaged in a gentle yet radical reorientation toward everyday beauty, reciprocity, and belonging.

Weaving Wild Wonder extended beyond its digital platform into a curated series of workshops exploring therapeutic arts practices, photography, poetics and zine-making. This embodied extension of the work provided participants with reflective, sensorial spaces to process individual and collective experiences of isolation and reconnection—grounding creative expression in principles of trauma-informed, relational practice.

The creative team brought diverse methodologies to the program, including nature-based poetry sessions and zine-making with Julie-Ann Henninger and dan eleni carey; therapeutic and expressive arts with Niki Read’s Wild Ground: Art and Loss ; and A Sacred Round on Stolen Ground: Decolonising Wild Adventures with Raphael Lavallee from Bogong Moth Art.

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