With the changes that had to happen over the past few months, as a society we have adapted by taking on new norms that abruptly changed the way we live, the way we do things, and the way we move. As if hitting a reset button, Covid-19 has caused us to stop and stay home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Movement (as living beings) is a big part of our lives- from before we even become<\/em> in our mother\u2019s womb, we move and have moved. This 2020, we experience a whole wave of restrictions that has placed limits on our own movements- from social distancing, to limiting gatherings, to only being with your family or the people you live with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At the height of Covid-19\u2019s global pandemic, movement seemed to be a privilege we took for granted. Throughout my art inquiry, I will navigate through and engage with the concept of movement in today\u2019s pandemic, continuously working with<\/em> and dialoguing with<\/em> rocks as a material. Dichotomous to movement, I found myself drawn to the weight, the heaviness, the stability, and stillness of the rock, which I was able to make connections with personally.With each engagement with rocks, I gain a deeper understanding of what it means to be grounded in the world I am presently a part of- that I am not here merely existing, but rather continuously feeling with<\/em>, breathing with<\/em>, living with<\/em>, and moving with<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" With the changes that had to happen over the past few months, as a society we have adapted by taking on new norms that abruptly changed the way we live, the way we do things, and the way we move. As if hitting a reset button, Covid-19 has caused us to stop and stay home. … Continue reading Introduction<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":547,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/faithdawa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/faithdawa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/faithdawa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/faithdawa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/547"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/faithdawa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=954"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/faithdawa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":958,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/faithdawa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954\/revisions\/958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/faithdawa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/faithdawa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/faithdawa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}