Objects Embodied: Portals, Memory & Meaning with Lyn Swett Miller
Objects Embodied: Portals, Memory & Meaning with Lyn Swett Miller
October 6th - November 24th, 2025
Mondays 6:30 - 8:30 pm ET for 8 weeks.
Water is fluid, alive and cleansing; It can also be destructive and polluted. As are our lives, water is multifaceted. In Objects Embodied: Portals, Memory & Meaning we will consider these guiding questions: In what ways does the flow of water around us and within us make us feel alive? In what ways might particular objects offer portals to elemental states of mind and being?
In the process of exploring the idea of aliveness, we will consider how photography can help us make sense of the unexpected life-forces contained within seemingly inanimate things. We will practice listening to the spirits of objects and our relationships to those spirits. Are they inviting us in or asking us to move on?
This 8-week deep dive will offer ongoing invitations to make portraits of, take walks with, and have conversations with your object(s) of interest. This will be a highly collaborative practice group, grounded in personal experience. There will be time for individual sharing and group discussion as we unpack how water’s fluidity and spirit flow from and through the material world.
While I hang out with my wedding dress, which I have been playing with for the past six months, you may be called by something as large as a house or as small as an heirloom button. No matter the thing, we will play together, laughing and crying our way through the unexplored and unexpected.
This practice group is for photographers of all levels, but will focus more on conceptual questions than technical issues. The only pre-requisite is that you know how to share your images on Zoom using whatever program works best for you.
Objects Embodied will also recur with evolving questions and considerations during our exploration of Earth in early 2026.
Kinship uses a pay-what-you-can honor system with a minimum donation or $60. The average contribution for a eight-week practice group is $150. Please give as generously as you can. If you cannot afford the minimum contribution of $60 please don't hesitate to request a scholarship.
Lyn Swett Miller is a micro-climate photographer, essayist and motivational speaker living in Vermont. Her work explores the power of transformation and renewal as experienced in a compost pile and the landfill as well as with books decomposing in her garden. Lyn is currently working on a limited edition book, In the Garden Library. A member of the Kinship community for two years, Lyn facilitated the Re-Imagining Loss & Grief Practice Group in 2024 and is excited to collaborate more with her kin in 2025.
