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“My drawings changed as I began to come~to~know Willow, noticing the trunk, branches and leaves. The picture I drew
no longer had the boundary of the curly, whirly green line, the dashes depicting the bark were longer and more purposeful, the
trunk had a location, she was grounded!”
“Other languages […] helped me to really explore it and get a more holistic view of the tree that I would
not normally see or experience […] how we can make a connection by encountering and finding relations.”
The languages of sight, touch, hearing, smell … ‘seeing’ differently in other languages: photography, drawing,
paper, wire…. Identities became more complex and interwoven, relationships deepened.
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