My practice had been based within people and communities and
suddenly I realised I had a new community to work with, my family and neighbours .
I wrote them a letter explaining my project and asking for contributions
on the topic of Soil-Care and Self-Care, in particularly in relation to the
quarantine we were all in.
I was very surprised by the amount of answers I received. All came
from very personal feelings, emotions, and experiences.
I
realised that my project had taken, with the development of the Covid
situation, a whole other meaning triggered by the thoughts that arose from the
reality of the situation.
Joining Bellacasa’s* thought about the need for
humans to be part of an ecological foodweb, I think it is important to envisage
going back to a more autonomous societal situation. Linking to my project, to improve
our human-soil relation isn’t just a personal, but a global need. We must reconnect
with nature to explore what it can give us in terms of food, medicine, and
material.
*Puig de la Bellacasa, M. (2015). Making time for soil: Technoscientific futurity and the pace of care. Social Studies of Science, 45(5), 691-71