Part of Creative Compost at Windmill Community Gardens
2024
Foraged flowers, recycled paper, charcoal
By invitation from artist Fiona Parry to participate in her project ‘Creative Compost’, I was invited to the Windmill Community Gardens Sumner Fair, where I hosted a 'community mandala and wish workshop'. A relaxed creative space to appreciate the beauty of nature and to give energy to some of our dreams and wishes.
All creations and materials were added to a creative compost heap at the end of the session, to be transformed into food for new life.
Community Wish and Flower Mandal
The workshop was part of a broader project conceived by Fiona Parry, titled ‘Creative Compost’ a community and permaculture experiment, resulting in the making of a creative and collaborative compost heap.
The project consisted of three artists, each hosting a creative workshop that utilised only natural compostable materials. The creations from each workshop fed the heap with shared ideas and biodegradable creations.
The participating artists and workshops were:
Rosie Carr who made collaborative compost poems
Hetty Bax who made compostable figures and creations.
Jas Dhillon (me) will made a mandala from foraged materials and wishes
As part of Windmill’s community compost scheme, people were encouraging to bring their food scraps to be composted at the garden. And for this event were invited to contribute something to the collaborative creative heap.
A written record was made of each contribution throughout the day.
Nourishing the heap with ideas, stories and materials, the project explores the regenerative process of composting and its importance to a thriving garden, as well as the stories behind the plants we grow, and the materials we generate and throw away.
Photo credit: Joseph Ball
