Annie Bailey. Susan Bickford. Fletcher Boote. Katherine Ferrier. Robin Lane. Heather Lyon. Luke Myers.

We are a place based interdisciplinary and improvisational collaborative practicing deep listening and intensive making in nature, offering our work in kinship with human and more than human partners along waterways in Midcoast Maine. The (stillness) collective is an iteration of a group that has been gathering and making work since 2015. We arrive, make agreements, and together we listen to place, responding to what we find. We slow into, attune to, attend to, and are directed by whatever happens. We recognize that we exist within a society and culture whose foundation is built on systems of oppression. We practice ongoing relationship, interrelatedness, equanimity, generosity, gratitude, kindness, and slowness in service to the dismantling of those systems. We offer our work toward a vision of reciprocity.