Common Threads Mabinogion Collection 2010

Common Threads explores an interconnectedness with the natural world through a visualization of the language of Welsh mythology. I have researched ancient tendencies to worship and revere the natural world, using characters found transcribed in the tales of the Mabinogion. I hope to use mythological archetypes to illustrate how emotional and psychological connections with the natural world are long established and important to our well being, emotionally, spiritually, psychologically as well as physically. After all, we are all dependent on clean and available water, clean air and fertile soils to sustain our most basic needs. Mythologies from all sorts of different cultures contain recurring motifs, themes and characters. Within these myths, are contained universal values that outline and preserve behavioural norms, not only towards each other as a species but also towards the environment at large. It is these narrative, ancient and sometimes overlooked that I am interested in reawakening and reutilizing to encourage and visually communicate the benefits of preserving emotional, spiritual and practical bonds with the environments that directly support human life.