Creating more work like this is one of the outcomes in the project Looking Down Low.

By combining hiking exploration with different artistic mediums, it can extend the reach of this connection to our natural world. The aim of the project would be to collect footage of me and Daisy the cat in hiking adventures going across Atlantic Canada. This would be turned into artistic resources that could be made available in urban and educational settings.

 

Bringing nature into our lives has so many benefits! Nature connections can be made, expressed, and shared through art. This can occur through adventures, poetry, exploration, music, questions, and more or the combination of them all. Can you imagine what the world looks like down low through the eyes of a cat in the forest? What leaves and insects look like, how tall a tree seems, how strange and large litter can be, how there are so many different things to find, follow, and know. If you can imagine this, then keep going to imagining a changed perspective from seeing and how much stronger connection can be through film, poetry, and forms of art. This is the goal of Looking Down Low.