An Elemental Year: Summer / Fire
An Elemental Year: Photography, Ritual, and Magic with Susan Patrice
Summer / Fire: June 24th - September 9th
Meets every Tuesday, 12 - 2 PM EDT via Zoom for 12 sessions.
Group size: 6
The Elemental Year is a recurring seasonal practice group that draws creative inspiration from land-based cultures—where time moves in non-linear rhythms with the Earth and travels in a circle. During this practice group, we will utilize the power of embodied seasonal rituals, contemplative practices, and deep reflection to explore our fundamental relationship to our elemental kin. Participants are invited to follow their creative intuition through one season or all three remaining seasons. Together, we will ponder whether slow-photography can awaken new levels of curiosity, wonder, and magic while inspiring new ways of seeing and being kin.
Summer: Fire
This 12-session summer group will be focused on elemental “fire”. The Celts celebrated the element of fire for its warmth, light, and its transformative power. Together we will be exploring photography’s profound relationship to light and photography’s immense power to illuminate and catalyze inner and outer transformation.
Kinship uses a pay-what-you-can honor system. This twelve-session practice group requires a minimum donation of $100. The average contribution for a twelve-session practice group is $225. Please give as generously as you can. If you cannot afford the minimum contribution of $100, please request a scholarship.
Susan Patrice is a documentary photographer, contemplative artist, and creativity coach. Over the last twenty years, she has worked with hundreds of creatives, drawing on a vast and diverse collection of resources gathered from her love of interdisciplinary studies. She lives in Cumberland, MD, where she is the director of Makers Circle and a co-founder of the Kinship Photography Collective.
Since 2016, her photographic work has explored the power of visual perception and its impact on feelings of connection and kinship. Through the use of handmade cameras built in response to the places she photographs, she engages in deep conversations with the land. Her most recent project, The Land of My Body, combines her work as a documentary photographer and citizen artist while exploring her family’s Celtic ancestry alongside a multigenerational legacy of trauma. Susan’s work celebrates the power of photography to transform and reimagine the past, present, and future.
