At heart, the Larks and Ravens are researchers – exploring the strangeness of the world through drawing, making, reading, discussing and experimentation.
Alongside our work of making gods out of cardboard (to bring to life abstract concepts which shape and often distort our culture and politics), we are increasingly drawn to “the imaginal”… seeking to catch glimpses beyond the narrow reality restricted by the limits of what words and logic can express.
As Sadie Ritman, the Cultural Ecologist, writes “All around the world, stories tell of ‘hidden beings’ that mystically mediate between the human and more than human in an interconnected and enchanted world of many worlds….We are inheritors of myths, of multiple worlds, of inbetweenesses we may not have learned how to seriously inhabit…. We don’t need to believe in ‘hidden beings’ but we need to recover the capacity of not knowing… to hold space for the unknown”.
That’s the space we are keen to explore…..
“And as imagination bodies forth
The forms of things unknown, the poet’s pen
Turns them to shapes and gives to air nothing
A local habitation and a name”
Shakespeare ‘Midsummer Night’s Dream
