ErikaMoen

COLLAGE: I feel embodied when...

Added 2023-09-07 07:00:02 +0000 UTC

What She Knows is an art practice which prompts you with a daily statement and I am answering in my native language of collage. My previous responses are collected here. The prompt today day was:

I feel embodied when...

Ok, so I didn’t really know what “embodied” meant. I mean, I sort-of knew? But not enough to answer the prompt confidently.

Using the dictionary definition of “be an expression of or give a tangible or visible form to (an idea, quality, or feeling)”, I still wasn’t sure what that meant so I tried out substituting in a series of recommended similar words (“incarnate, give human form/shape to, incorporate”, etc) to the original question and came away rephrasing it as “When do I feel happiest in my body?” and, of course, the answer is “When I’m gardening”

And rather than make a collage of my garden again, instead I made a picture of what that gardening-specific physical happiness feels like- which is a bright magenta washing machine with giant carrot greens joyfully growing-exploding (growsploding™) through the roof.

The washing machine is my body, while the color magenta and the leafy carrot stalks are my feelings of joy and growth and playfulness and imagination when I’m working in my garden.