Ecology as a healing agent of the body by using metaphysical mapping. Prior to the walk, participants will create a work of art that connects them to land spaces. The walk will begin at the Eastern Promenade Trail and end at East End Beach where each participant will present their art, culminating with two local storytellers, Jason & Donna Brown (Penobscot) from Decontie & Brown, who will speak to the connections of ecology of the Dawnland, and how it’s inhabitants can learn ways to engage with the land as a source of space healing. The walk is specifically crafted for BIPOC educators and healers. This work is inspired by the Hindi word Kal which means and embodies Yesterday and Tomorrow, accompanied by inspiration from Gaston Bachelard’s The Poetics of Space, a philosopher that explored the interstitial spaces of self, body, and space (For we are, where we are not...). This walk is a quest for BIPOC body identity as interstitial, being here, and not an exteriorized colonized there, the walk and land art merging as a synthesizing of ecology and body.

LOCATION: Meet at the the Casco Bay Ferry Terminal Eastern Promenade Trailhead.

REGISTRATION: Update: This walk is currently full! Register to be placed in the wait list. The walk is specifically crafted for BIPOC educators and healers only. Please register using this link: https://metaphysicalmapping.eventbrite.com

Asata Radcliffe is a writer and multimedia artist. A California native, Asata received her MFA in Creative Writing (Fiction) from Antioch University in Los Angeles. She writes speculative fiction and essays. Her creative work culminates as multimedia collections of speculative art installation, merging writing, film, and form. Her work invites one to experience the interstitial spaces of speculative landscapes and surrealist futures. Concerned about the planet, her research includes topics of land ethics, futurism, and the nonlinear narratives of human existence. She currently lives and teaches in Portland, Maine.