- Leonora Oppenheim

Layers of dusk out in the field. Playing with text

Layers of dusk out in the field. Playing with textures and imagining a future performance, where I invite people to join me in a procession through the landscape. Shooting with my new/old (2nd hand) Canon 5D Mark III. I wonder what adventures this camera has had before it arrived in my hands?! At long last, I’ve been able to upgrade my hardware thanks to @aceagrams funding #DYCP. So grateful 🤗 #aprocessofbecoming #embodiedpractice #somerset

The veil is thin A night to honour the ancestors L

The veil is thin
A night to honour the ancestors
Light a candle for those on the other side
Reach out a hand to see if we meet

#samhain
#diadelosmuertos
#halloween

“I am so happy in the silky damp dark of the lab

“I am so happy in the silky damp dark of the labyrinth and there is no thread.” Hélène Cixous

I’m about to go down the rabbit hole and live with the mycelium for a while. Very proud to share that I’ve received @aceagrams funding in Round 14 of Develop Your Creative Practice.

This means the Arts Council are supporting me to develop a project called ‘Nature Reclaiming Its Own Image’ where I’ll be upskilling in large format photography, learning to grow living matter through my photographs, and developing a new performance piece in the Somerset landscape.

It’s an exciting new season in my practice and I’m so deeply grateful for the support of such an esteemed institution. Thx also to @42acresretreat for sharing their incredible fungi cultivation knowledge with me and to @merlin.sheldrake for this wonderful Cixous quote which accompanies me as I go underground.

#dycp14
#aprocessofbecoming
#embodiedpractice
#myceliumrunning

Trying to get close to you, September 2021. My se

Trying to get close to you, September 2021.

My search for intimacy in nature embodies the desire for connection and the frustration of separation.

I ask the land what it can teach me about how to meet the world in a female body.

#embodiedpractice
#aprocessofbecoming
#supportsystem
#somerset

Before They Awake IV, August 2020 Reflecting on a

Before They Awake IV, August 2020

Reflecting on a pivotal moment I had two weeks ago when I delivered a Pecha Kucha presentation @shatwellfarm here in Somerset.

I invited the audience to feel their emotional and physical response to this photograph, rather than visually analyse the meaning it has for me as the maker. I included a short taster of Feldenkrais movement to help people become aware of their senses and feel more at ease in their bodies.

It was such a fascinating experience connecting my artwork to my Feldenkrais practice and getting to hear first hand how it resonated. People told me about pathways to the future, about painful wrists, about freshly accessed anger, about tension, about hope.

Looking forward to doing a lot more embodied perception workshops, not just with my photographs, but with all kinds of artwork in gallery spaces and museums.

Having originally trained in art history I’m very accomplished in visual analysis, but with my recent somatic training I’m even more excited about offering an alternative that centres the viewer’s experience.

How do you feel when you look at this photograph?

#embodiedpractice
#aprocessofbecoming
#Feldenkrais
#awarenessthroughmovement