Ritual for Nesting, Rachel Sandle

Where do our rituals originate and how do they relate to the ecology of our environment? Sandle’s interactive poetry experience draws on native birds’ nesting habits to invite visitors to perform a guided ritual in the Grove. By recording your sequence of actions as a poem, prose, drawing, or by other means and sharing it with Sandle through a web link, a communal database or conceptual nest of ideas emerges. Sandle describes the result as “a collaborative exercise in imagining and creating and an open exchange of both creative and intimate thought relating to shelter.”