This article is a prequel to ongoing research into DIY Healing Within Ancestral Lands. A project born of growing up in a family system that was not kind, welcoming or loving.
JoinedSeptember 26, 2022
Kara Thorndike is interested in how we choose to be, and why. She seeks wisdom in understanding the context of experiences that shape how we are. Living in participant observation, Kara’s research and art practice reflect her lived experiences. She rejects that life, work, family, and environment are separate and/or static. Raw, blunt, and gut-level, her work strives to voice experiences, realized and otherwise… and ultimately reveal multiple possibilities of how things can be. Working how life is, antidisciplinary and intertwingled, Kara has studied social systems, distinctions between private/public, and inclusion/exclusion while earning a MA in Sociology and a practice-centered MFA in Art and Humanities. Her experiences working in education, social service, design, and art have been a journey to piece together the fragments of thriving in spite of, and within the cracks of dehumanizing social systems. Currently based in Scotland, Kara explores life with her young son in tow which is sometimes a shared hobby and collaborative work; sometimes… not so much.
