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BODY AND EARTH
ongoing embodied research and artistic reflection of the relationship between body and earth
BODY AND EARTH emerges as response to our era of disembodiment and increasingly distant relationship with nature and our body— where essential nourishment, aliveness and context has largely gone lost, causing impact to our individual, collective and environmental well-being.
The works are artistic documentation of a living-breathing practice and research in the eco-somatic field. A continuous, deeply personal and deeply shared remembering of our interconnectedness— encouraging reflection, transformation, and restoration of our relationship with Nature.
Julie occasionally shares BODY x EARTH programmes— invitations to meet with the body and nature at heart, to be together, creatively and contemplatively, with what emerges from there.
THE ROOTS THAT HOLD US : JULIE AGNES x FERN LOU
THE ROOTS THAT HOLD US is part of Julie and Fern’s ongoing work to explore and reflect the wilder, deeper self, and first emerged for the public eye as part of NATURE BODY exhibition in Chiang Mai, March 2025. The series invite a returning to the roots, remembering of the body’s belonging to the land, and acknowledgment of earth as ancestor, support, and holder of wisdom.
At the heart of the eco-somatic practice is feeling nature as part of our body, our body as part of nature— listening and learning about nature and the body, experientially. A process encouraging an embodied understanding, moving us toward positive change by making clear our shared ecologies and well-being. Through direct conversation with nature, we can rediscover the ground of our ancestral traditions, restore inherent belonging, and meet our deeper self.
Photography by Sebastian Zahler.
BODY OF THE FOREST : JULIE AGNES x FERN LOU
How can we cultivate our ability to being wholeheartedly here in a changing world that is both beautiful and heartbreaking? Nature offers resilience and support for being with questions too big to hold alone. BODY OF THE FOREST spontaneously reflects the state of rendering ourselves vulnerable and available to the shared life— unifying with forces of nature to hold hope and surrender, gratitude and grief in the one and same breath. In being with nature through the body, we discover all the ways in which nature generously supports the transformations we are moving through by offering clarity and reminding us the forces of intuition and imagination.
BODY OF THE FOREST appeared as part of NATURE BODY exhibition in Chiang Mai, March 2025.
Nature is our inherent habitat, and the body knows. We are an indoor generation with daily lifes increasingly separate from the more-than-human world and challenges growing in complexity. In restoring and rediscovering our ecological identity and relationship with nature, we find remedy for our growing isolation and mental difficulties. Bringing our attention back into the body and our larger body, earth, we experience a shift of perspective from independence to interdependence. We return to a life beyond cognitive function into the aliveness and support of sensing, feeling and inter-being.
Photography by Sebastian Zahler.
THE SMALL DEATHS THAT SHAPE US : JULIE AGNES x MIKIS TAPASWI x VIR TORRES x FERN LOU
Inspired by the falling season, endings, and the quiet inevitability of decay, this collaborative research-art-practice unfolded as an inquiry into the small deaths that shape us—tracing the way death, in all its forms, is the essential ground and nourishment for life to emerge once again. Butoh practitioner and performing artist Vir, bodyworker and dancer Mikis, and Julie came together in a silent conversation, embodying the cycle of loss and regeneration. Behind the lens was photographer Fern Lou using fallen teak leaves as a natural filter, witnessing through the eye of nature.
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A practice of embodied gratitude and acknowledgement of the natural spaces that hold us, transform us, and support us, inevitably.
Photography by Veronica Olariu, at Being Nature Residency with Dolores Dewhurst-Marks, Chiang Dao, December 2022.
ANCIENT SONG OF BAMBOO : JULIE AGNES x LINDA PAPPA
ANCIENT SONG OF BAMBOO springs from a shared appreciation for the spirit of things and intimately explore the story, wisdom and support of Bamboo. An artistic reflection of how every body of nature holds support, wisdom and inspiration to touch and be touched by. Bamboo as a symbol of simplicity, silence, generosity and resilience— of holding emptiness at heart.
SPONTANEOUS RITUAL OF THE FOREST
SPONTANEOUS RITUAL OF THE FOREST refers to the way in which when being with nature through deep listening and available to her embrace, the body, in one way or another, effortlessly and in surprising ways, finds its way back to the larger body of the earth. An empty act of surrender— dissolving into the landscape, becoming part, and remembering our place amongst our more-than-human kin, sometimes alone, sometimes together.
Photography by Sebastian Zahler.
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