Ritualized Ink Making with Cyrah Dardas

The Ritualized Ink Making workshop is a participatory, seasonal ceremony that weaves together elements of earth-based ritual, communal craft, and material transmutation. Aligned with the first new moon of summer, this gathering invites participants to engage in a collective ink-making process. Participants will leave with a sense of creative ritual, deeper connection to natural materials and elements, and the knowledge of a traditional ink-making process.

“Gardening, foraging and exploring in this way has taught me so much about play, interdependency, and reciprocity. I have been really enchanted by learning how to make dyes and paint [...] it feels like a form of interspecies collaboration.”

Cyrah Dardas is a Queer, eco-feminist artist and care worker living in Detroit /Waawiyaatanong, Anishinaabe territory. Cyrah uses her art practice as a tool in remembering the lost relationships between humans and non-human beings because of the extractive nature of capitalism by regulating and healing our collective body to restore interdependency. Their work is informed by their  experiences  in childcare, gardening, as a member of an artist cooperative, Portal For and through their work with natural fibers, earth pigments, and botanical inks. Their practice is deeply rooted in ritualized art making, using the process as well as the work itself as a tool for grief composition, and collective healing.

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