๐ข๐ธ Field of Exploration ๐
" A deep and living appreciation for the natural world - one that also includes humans and a profound awareness of our mortality and Sensory Processing Sensitivity informs my life, energy, and work.
My paternal grandparents have softly shared their horticultural skills with me since childhood, as I spent an essential part of the first fifteen years of my life with them in rural Alsace (France). Never forcefully, I contributed to theirself-sufficient lifestyle, in which they grew fruits, vegetables, herbs, tisane, nuts, saved seeds, and dyed with plants. My grandfather practised organic lunar phase gardening, focusing on permaculture. He introduced me to the work of farmer and philosopher Masanobu Fukuoka, who has been a vital inspiration in my life and practice. My observation and recollection of these times in the form of memories and integrated movements, along with gardening with my father as an adult and working on a biodynamic farm over four seasons, continue to shape my thoughts.
Key parts of my experimentation take place in rural Oxfordshire (England), on two allotment plots of which I have been a co-custodian since July 2021.
This page focuses on (my) ongoing holistic Field of Exploration through practice-based research - most of which occurs outdoors, through continuous (un)learning and international collaborations with people, non-human animals, soil, bacteria, time and elements.
Please contact me if you wish to collaborate or support this field. "
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Photographs by Aloha Bonser-Shaw, for TOAST, Johannna Tagada Hoffbeck, Crรฉer avec la nature (2023 - ISBN 9782379222078)
-> Series Penser, Manger, Partager (2014 - Present)
-> Natural Dyes Workshop Facilitator since 2018. Click here for dates & locations.
-> Commissioned by TOAST, 2023.
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Photographs by Johanna Tagada Hoffbeck, Jatinder Singh Durhailay & Kohei Yamamoto.
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With gratitude for the work and research of Iain Tolhurst, Masanobu Fukuoka, The Vegan Organic Network and many others.
SEED SAVINGS
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* Part of the Seed Saving Network (UK)
* Speaker at The Gaia Foundation's Seed Sovereignty Programme trainees, 2024 (UK)
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โWhile tisanes had been a part of my childhood, my interest in tea culture began in my early twenties with the desire to learn about and document transnational tea practices. This curiosity led me to the idea for the collaborative printed publication series Journal du Thรฉ - Contemporary Tea Culture, which Tilmann S. Wendelstein and I founded.
-> Journal du Thรฉ - Contemporary Tea Culture
All exhibition openings, publications launches, and other public events relating to my practice are alcohol-free and offer complimentary organic tea or tisane. This exploration of tea culture and togetherness is a lifelong journey. With gratitude to the tea community, all the tea friends, collaborators and readers of Journal du Thรฉ. โ
* Taking courses and workshops via Thrive since 2021 (UK).
็ใ่ฑ IKEBANA
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* Universitรฉ Populaire, Cours de Japonais, 2008-10 (FR).
* Ohara Ikebana Student since 2018.
* Currently a student under Master Ruriko Kojima (UK).
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์ฌ์ฐฐ ์์๊ณผ ์ ์ Temple Food & Gardens (Korea)
* Diplรดme d'Universitรฉ de Corรฉen 1รจre annรฉe, Universitรฉ Bordeaux Montaigne - FR (2024 -Present)
* Korean Language - Beginner at Oxford University Department of Continuing Education - Oxford, UK(2023 - 2024)
๐ ๐ ๐ (Unacademic) Practice-based Research ๐ข๐ธ ๐ข๐ธ ๐ข๐ธ
" A deep and living appreciation for the natural world - one that also includes humans and a profound awareness of our mortality and Sensory Processing Sensitivity informs my life, energy, and work.
My paternal grandparents have softly shared their horticultural skills with me since childhood, as I spent an essential part of the first fifteen years of my life with them in rural Alsace (France). Never forcefully, I contributed to theirself-sufficient lifestyle, in which they grew fruits, vegetables, herbs, tisane, nuts, saved seeds, and dyed with plants. My grandfather practised organic lunar phase gardening, focusing on permaculture. He introduced me to the work of farmer and philosopher Masanobu Fukuoka, who has been a vital inspiration in my life and practice. My observation and recollection of these times in the form of memories and integrated movements, along with gardening with my father as an adult and working on a biodynamic farm over four seasons, continue to shape my thoughts.
Key parts of my experimentation take place in rural Oxfordshire (England), on two allotment plots of which I have been a co-custodian since July 2021.
This page focuses on (my) ongoing holistic Field of Exploration through practice-based research - most of which occurs outdoors, through continuous (un)learning and international collaborations with people, non-human animals, soil, bacteria, time and elements.
Please contact me if you wish to collaborate or support this field. "
BOTANICAL DYES
-> Series Penser, Manger, Partager (2014 - Present)
-> Natural Dyes Workshop Facilitator since 2018. Click here for dates & locations.
-> Commissioned by TOAST, 2023.
NATURAL FARMING & VEGANIC PERMACULTURE
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* Tending to two allotment plots in rural Oxfordshire using Veganic (Organic + Vegan) Permaculture principles, focusing on polyculture and exploring natural farming as much as possible on communal allotment plots.
With gratitude for the work and research of Iain Tolhurst, Masanobu Fukuoka, The Vegan Organic Network and many others.
SEED SAVINGS
Page in progress
* Part of the Seed Saving Network (UK)
* Speaker at The Gaia Foundation's Seed Sovereignty Programme trainees, 2024 (UK)
TEA CULTURE
โWhile tisanes had been a part of my childhood, my interest in tea culture began in my early twenties with the desire to learn about and document transnational tea practices. This curiosity led me to the idea for the collaborative printed publication series Journal du Thรฉ - Contemporary Tea Culture, which Tilmann S. Wendelstein and I founded.
-> Journal du Thรฉ - Contemporary Tea Culture
All exhibition openings, publications launches, and other public events relating to my practice are alcohol-free and offer complimentary organic tea or tisane. This exploration of tea culture and togetherness is a lifelong journey. With gratitude to the tea community, all the tea friends, collaborators and readers of Journal du Thรฉ. โ
SOCIAL & THERAPEUTIC HORTICULTURE
* Taking courses and workshops via Thrive since 2021 (UK).
็ใ่ฑ IKEBANA
* Universitรฉ Populaire, Cours de Japonais, 2008-10 (FR).
* Ohara Ikebana Student since 2018.
* Currently a student under Master Ruriko Kojima (UK).
Page in progress
์ฌ์ฐฐ ์์๊ณผ ์ ์ Temple Food & Gardens (Korea)
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* Diplรดme d'Universitรฉ de Corรฉen 1รจre annรฉe, Universitรฉ Bordeaux Montaigne - FR (2024 -Present)
* Korean Language - Beginner at Oxford University Department of Continuing Education - Oxford, UK(2023 - 2024)