INTRODUCING
BY ART OF EUPHORIA
A WEEK-LONG GATHERING FOR CREATIVE BEINGS.
An unconventional, soulful and humble invitation to get together as a group - a flock, a unity, a unified field of people - exploring a broader approach to creativity, community and belonging.
What happens when we move from individual ways of creation to creating as a collective?
What happens when we shift from separation to unity?
What happens when we dare to move further than the digital realm, to meet and create together in-person?
What is CREATIVE INTIMACY?
What happens when we move from individual ways of creation to creating as a collective? What happens when we shift from separation to unity? What happens when we dare to move further than the digital realm, to meet and create together in-person? What is CREATIVE INTIMACY?
Creativity is a powerful conduit to discover who we are and feel the unique languages that come through us. A divine way of relating to our worlds, within and without. Which is all quite wonderful. But it gets even better when it is intentionally shared with others. Over the last few years, we have been asking ourselves a few questions.
All these questions led us to the vision of THE FLOCK. It’s not a retreat. It’s not an artist residency. It’s simply an invitation to get together as we are. To discover a place together and witness each other as we follow our curiosity. To nurture our creativity as a way of grounding and relating to the land. To expand each other as we feel the shift from individual to collective creative expression. To create beautiful memories together, because that’s why we are here too.
LET’S EXPLORE WHAT IT MEANS TO UNRAVEL OUR ARTISTRY IN
A WAY THAT BELONGS TO THIS EARTH AND TO EACH OTHER.
WHAT CAN
WE CREATE
WHEN WE COME TOGETHER
AS ONE UNIFIED FIELD?
INVITING YOU TO OUR FIRST GATHERING
THIS FALL
ON OUR BELOVED MOTHER ISLAND
CRETE 7-11 OCTOBER 2024
It is where we live, where we have a home and our studios. Where we have learned to relate to the land and the cosmos, to create from a place of deeper relationship to both. We are inviting you to join us in our nest and cannot wait to share the magic of this place with you.
Our creative explorations and activities will be in alignment with the medicine of the Fall. The time of the Harvest, the season of the element of Earth. We will explore how to use creative expression as a form of gratitude and offering to the land. We will journey with how to become porous, like clay. To allow the nourishment of life to penetrate us, to inspire us, to soften us.
Softly, organically - through spaciousness and deep intimacy, we will develop a unified body of work, together.
THE FLOCK OF BIRDS LANDS ON EARTH AFTER THE FLIGHT
ITS THE FALL EQUINOX WE TURN OUR ATTENTION INWARDS IT’S THE TIME OF HARVEST THE FIELDS ARE GOLDEN
THE GRAPES AND POMEGRANATES HAVE SWOLLEN THE EARTH SMELLS OF FERTILE RIPENESS WATER & EARTH
LET’S HONOUR OUR EARTH AND CO-CREATE WITH THE LAND EXPLORING OUR PHYSICALITY AND SENSORY PERCEPTION
MATURITY BITTER SWEETNESS NOSTALGIA IMPERMANENCE CELEBRATION CARNAL DELIGHTS GRATITUDE
HARVEST TIME GOLDEN FIELDS GRAPES POMEGRANATES MEMORIES PRESERVED IN CLAY
WHAT WE WILL JOURNEY WITH
TUNING INTO THE ENERGY OF THE SEASON AND WHAT IT INVITES IN US • EXPLORING INDIVIDUAL AND COMMUNAL REFLECTION THROUGH JOURNALING, WRITING, POETRY • CONNECTING TO THE CRETAN LAND, ITS NATURE AND ITS CULTURE • PHOTOGRAPHY, VIDEOGRAPHY AND VISUAL STORYTELLING • SENSORIAL EXPLORATIONS WITH WILD CLAY • LAND ART, EARTH CRAFT AND SCULPTING IN NATURE • SOUND-PLAY AND SONIC EXPLORATION
YOUR HOSTS
We are Linda and David. A couple of multi-dimensional creative beings.
Linda is a piscean dreamer in love with the depths of being. In her own artistic work, she strives to build relationship with Earth and Spirit, by cultivating deep intimacy with the land.
David is a cancer/leo brew of Fire and Water, who loves to pursue both the ecstatic fun and the deep raw emotions of life. Somehow he always ends up creating alternate dimensions, using sound and image as his vehicles.
We have been in each other’s lives for 16 years. Together, we form a couple but also a creative partnership which pulls us into an ongoing collaboration and conversation with all that inspires us.
We support others through art direction and thoughtful design work. The core of our work together is crafting visual languages that feel completely alive and sensorial.
Playfulness and intentional community is very important in our lives. We love holding spaces, guiding others and love observing when creative expression becomes not just an individual quest but a shared one.
That is why we’ve been regularly inviting other artists into our nest - and why we felt called to create the Flock. There are many wonderful creative and gifted beings out there, including yourself.
What can happen when we get together and play?
This gathering is aimed at creative beings and people who are genuinely interested in exploring their creativity or devoted to living creatively in some way or form. We are excited to meet, exchange and create together with people who are curious, playful, open-minded, kind-hearted.
We welcome into our flock people who are sensitive, who value different ways of being together. People who are comfortable with silence as well as laughter.
People who value deep presence, perhaps even more than they value words. People who are spirited but who are also capable of being very grounded, humble and real.
People who love and care about our Earth, about the land, about nature and are curious about exploring new ways to relate to place. People who value quality over quantity, who trust in the magic of intimacy and take delight in slowness.
FOR WHO
JOIN
US
THIS GATHERING IS OPEN TO 8 PEOPLE. IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN JOINING US, PLEASE FILL THE FORM BELOW!