About LifeWays

Welcome

An Online Experimental Diary

LifeWays is a contemplative art practice involving deep listening to how memory moves through landscape, the seasons, and the still spaces we often overlook. In this diary I will share reflections, creative fragments, images, poetic texts, and notes from a slow unfolding.

LifeWays is an invitation to listen to what the land remembers.

For the coming year, the practice of LifeWays unfolds beside the River Cong, where I attend to the river’s shifts, textures and stories as they move through the seasons.

This new body of work follows the threads that link memory and belonging across place and time; it involves deep listening to the ecological memory within evolving landscapes.

Importantly, LifeWays is a practice of remembering with nature.

It is a creative act of participation, where art becomes a form of ecological agency.

Not all beginnings bloom

Some root quietly

in moss & time-worn bark

– Field Notes: All images & narrative by Anna King

Branches, lichen, soft green beginnings – each holds a faint trace of place and time.

The practice of LifeWays invites you to rest in relationship with rivers and trees, to feel the texture of weathered bark, and to notice how squalls of light move through the shadows left after late summer rain.

These signatures of belonging reveal themselves when we pause and attune to the layers of presence resting just beneath the wind-burnished surface.

LifeWays listens to the full rhythm of the land;

the peace before the storm,

the wintering & the return.

River Cong

Weathered surfaces reveal

traces of time

Flickering through Autumn light

A Practice of Attention:
Sometimes the work arrives as tenderness; sometimes as tension: a stem holding both blossom and thorn, a sky carrying both shadow and light.
Each moment carries an imprint of what has passed –
and of what is yet to unfold.