In Fiona’s own words…

Art stands at the intersection of nature and artifice. The wild natural world offers a template for creation that is inherently beautiful, inherently truthful, inherently authentic. Humans have spent millennia apprenticing themselves to nature’s intelligence — to my mind, this is an apprenticeship to the wild gods. We call things that humans make artificial, but when humans create from their wildness what they make is art. Therefore, to me, true art is a force of nature. It issues forth naturally from children; adults, however, have to walk a steep, solitary path to lose their artifice and learn how to listen to the wild wisdom that is their inheritance. So, in my mind, art is the medicine that allows us to remember what is most true within us and what is possible in the evolution of humanity as we blossom into our godhood.

My hope in founding Reckon Arts Collective is to provide artists a space to creatively explore what it means to be alive at this challenging moment. I believe that, at heart, artists are magicians, capable of seeing into more subtle realms of possibility.  As such, we are uniquely suited to grapple with complexities, not as problems but rather as food for the imagination. I believe everything in this world is alive and sentient in ways we have yet to fully understand. Quantum scientists seem to speculate that our world is a kind of collaborative creation that coalesces around our observations.  Another way of saying this is our world is a vast, collaborative art installation.  So why are humans taking this tremendous power and using it to create such a boring, homogeneous, beige world?  It is my hope that we at Reckon Arts step fully into the power of our magicianship and conjure up a world of humane, wild beauty, a world where we prioritize what brings each of us fully alive.

What do you bring to the collective?  

painter, poet, collage artist, costumemaker, singer, fine furnituremaker, writer, editor, apprentice to architect and author Christopher Alexander, Berkeley grad, mother