Becoming Other
Becoming Other is an ongoing collaborative project between Jenni Dutton and myself, born from a relationship with the River Washford. While the river now sits more in the background, her influence remains embedded in the work as a formative force rather than an active co-author. The project explores acts of transformation, shapeshifting and becoming through sculpture, writing, performance, mask-making, sound and movement, weaving future folklore that responds to ecological memory, human longing and more-than-human ways of being. Emerging from a place of listening to landscape, Becoming Other asks how stories, bodies and identities might soften, slip and reconfigure in uncertain times. The first phase of the project will culminate in a riverside commitment ceremony for World Water Day, 22 March 2026. Here's our Instagram.
Heron, papier mache, household emulsion, goose feathers November 2025
Raven taunts the Heron (The Mask Swap performance acted at at Folk Juice, East Quay watchet, re-enacted later by the river. November 2025
Raven - the restless trickster, still from The Mask Swap - re-enacted by River Washford, November 2025
La Lechusa and the Raven, papier mache, waste emulsion, fabric, beads and lace, November 2025
River Washford Rising = Earth Watch Great Water Blitz river testing day, September 2025
Washerwoman of the Ford, film, sculpture, performance September 2025
Great UK Waterblitz (Earthwatch Europe and Dirty River Campaign), September 2025
Sheela na Gig and River Guardians, September 2025
At the Source of the River Washford, September 2025
