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Boxing Shadows #3: repurposing a set of scales

The last piece in the Boxing Shadows series is Reasons you can't weigh me. My grandmother's bathroom scales with poetry, ink drawing and collage using images fr...

Boxing Shadows #2: Poetry book box

Here is the second piece in my Boxing Shadows series for an upcoming group exhibition dedicated to visual poetry. I have played around with this idea before and...

Sea foam | weekly prompt

A quick scribble in response to this week's prompt, behind the mask. Needs editing but seems fitting to post the rough first go for this. Sea foam Today I smile...

Boxing Shadows #1: new book box for an upcoming exhibition

Thought I would share my latest, the first in a series of three poetry art objects made for an upcoming group exhibition called Bodies of Woven Code. This one i...

Conflict resolution - a poem written for The Dirty Thirty Challenge

Your mouth was a black hole nothing could satisfy it I stuffed mine full of rags so my answers could not be swept out of me stretched into little twisted creatu...

Growing Cyclamens

Cyclamen: noun, from the Greek kuklos meaning circle for its circular root. Cyclamen: a pink, red or white flowering plant that can survive in tough conditions ...

Get out and walk - poetry book box

This is the fourth post in my series sharing some of my favourite poetry book boxes. Book boxes are all made from found objects, with the intention that the mat...

Leadership Lessons from Dancing Guy: First Followers for our Personal Revolutions

This lil clip discusses how to form a movement in under three minutes. I first saw it three years ago and this bit has stayed with me ever since: "It's the firs...

How to ACTUALLY get out of a funk - on allowing ourselves to be fully human

I love this little visual. It is signed off by an A Rae who I can't find online for context, but they have managed to sum up a lot in this graphic. These steps ...

The Prada Book Box - poetry object art

This is the third post in a series sharing a few of my poetry book boxes. I started making these when I was a broke student and couldn't afford to buy Christmas...

A revolution is quietly unfolding in the field of medication withdrawal - Four new studies to check out.

[Screenshot of a quote from one of my participants who had experienced psychosis and mania and was managing well without medication] Many people find that medic...

All Tied Up - Poetry Book Box

Next up in my series of Book Box shares is an accordion book in an old Michael Hill Jewelers box that I made for an exhibition called Visualis at the Ellen Melv...

A beginning perhaps

Hi Hive World I noticed there are no active communities specifically for psychology and mental health recovery on Hive, though there are a couple of topic-adjac...

Waiting for Thumbelina - Pop-up Poetry Book Box

I make poetry books inside discarded gift boxes using found objects and collage. This is the first of a series of posts to share a few of my favourites. Waiting...

Hello to the Hive from a Kiwi poet and psychologist

Kia ora, Hive community I'm a poet, performer, and occasional visual artist from New Zealand with a background in clinical psychology and a long history of acti...

Web and Petal - Two collaborative NFTs my wife and I made

Kia ora and hello, everyone. My wife made some visual poetry during the pandemic lockdowns here in New Zealand. I really like them and suggested to her that she...

Taskforce Hop - a poem by Miriam Barr

--- Taskforce Hop Everybody wants to start a task force, let’s start a task force they say, we’ll call it a committee, there’ll be a bunch of us up the top and ...