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And what a beginning ! With today’s new moon starts the year of the Fire Horse in the Chinese astrological calendar. After a year of shedding old layers, and leaving behind what is no longer needed (thank you, Wood Snake), it’s as if the universe now asks:
– if you drop all your doubts in this very second, where will you head to, in full canter?
– what do you need to break free from, in order to gain momentum?
– what are lingering thoughts that need to be asserted and acted upon?
Chinese zodiac identifies 12 animal signs (Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Goat, Monkey, Rooster, Dog, Pig). It is said their order stems from a mythical race that was held by a great emperor to create a calendar system. Each animal sign is coupled with one of 5 elements (metal, wood, water, fire, earth). The same combination therefore only returns every 60 years.
The previous Fire Horse year was 1966. That year, birthrates dropped dramatically in Japan because of an old, sexist superstition that girls born that year would grow up to become headstrong, ill-tempered women bearing misfortune onto their poor husbands… Dear Fire Horse women out there, may you simply be yourselves !
I was born ten years later, in a small Belgian town surrounded by hills. It makes me a friendly Fire Dragon. With quite a temper too, from time to time, I admit… 🐉
Eager for more applied horse wisdom? Check out my equine assisted practice @_learning_with_horses.net or visit the Learning with Horses website (link in bio)
Images 1. Musicians on horse found in the tomb of Empress Ai, Yanshi, China, Tang dynasty (618-907), earthenware, Yanshi Museum. Photographed at the exhibition “Wu Zetian, the only female emperor of China” @keramiekmuseum_princessehof , 2025
For some time now I interweave land, body and soul in my work, centering on ‘acupuncture of place’. ✨
This year, I am a research fellow at the Pianpicollo Selvatico (trans. Little Wild Plain) Foundation in Southern Piemonte, a rural research center focused on interspecies coexistence and care, founded by Alice Benessia. Before dedicating herself to the many beings – mineral, animal and vegetal – there, Alice earned a Ph.D. in Science, Technology and Law, an M.A. in the Philosophical Foundations of Physics and an M.F.A in Photography and Related Media. Today her camera quietly bears witness to the cycles of life on the hilly land she inhabits.
During my seasonal stays there, I intend to listen to how the land and its stones speak to me, journal emerging perceptions and dreams, and look for ways to respond, in what nature vigil guide Natasha Lythgoe calls “a call-and -response with the living world and with the currents of the imaginal” (The Art of Rewilding). I will also apply practices and learnings from Natasha’s 2026 Murmuration course, on finding our way back to being dreamt by Earth.
Travelling tomorrow, nearly packed. Eager to meet you all again dear rocky, furry-feathery and two-legged beings !
@pianpicollo @the_art_of_rewilding
The fellowship is supported by @fondazionecrc and @regionepiemonte.official
🙏 thank you @_chiara_sgaramella_ for putting me in touch with Alice!
As of today you can get your copy of back issues of Field Essays @____page_not_found____ 🤲
Page Not Found is a Centre for Artistic Publishing in The Hague. They are open Wed-Sun 1-6 pm and have a super nice public programming, too. If you don’t know them yet – go have a look!
📚 Pick of Sticks Embodied, 2008 18.-
With the now dissolved artist duo LucyandBart (Lucy Mc Rae + Bart Hess) & phenomenologist Marek Pokropski @onomatopeenet #marekpokropski @lucymcrae @barthess #reneput #andreastscholl @lecturis #fondsbkvb @rietveldacademie @alvinhoko @tentrotterdam
📚 Things that Happened, 2015 85.- (very last copies from my personal archive, includes a mesmerizing LP with spoken tales by Brynjar 🐳)
With Icelandic designer and storyteller Brynjar Sigurðarson & anthropologist Tim Ingold. Foreword by Li Edelkoort. @onomatopeenet @brynjarsigurdarson @studiobrynjarandveronika #timingold @lidewijedelkoort @citedesartsparis @ecal_ch @mudamlux @anna_loporcaro @villanoailles @ericandmarie
📚 Q. Meanderings in Worlds of Mourning, 2022 22.-
With Uzbek artist and filmmaker Saodat Ismailova 💜 & decolonial thinker Rolando Vázquez @onomatopeenet @saodatismailova rolandovazquez @mondriaanfonds @stroom_den_haag newalphabetschool @hkw_berlin documentafifteen @rijksakademie @inedition_
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