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Why are we making a residency?

A relationship with the unknown is the fulcrum of a creative life. To produce something that didn't exist before, is to enter a new realm with no map. This labor of breaking from what's known can carry real stress, especially when it means stepping away from paid work to do it.

Artists, musicians, scholars, community organizers, ecological practitioners, and healers are often the members of society who experience the most instability, even as they do some of the most transformative cultural work. For those further from society's defaults, by race or sexuality, this precarity only compounds.

This project aims to provide burnt-out and marginalized creatives with the precious resources of time, space, and a balance between community contact and solitude, wildness and comfort. These elements may help to foster the sense of safety, ease, and spaciousness that so many makers need to revive their inner senses and create deep work.