Five Spirals: A Collection of Creative Inquiries and Unravelings

The short film Five Spirals: A Collection of Creative Inquiries and Unravelings presents footage of myself, the artist researcher, in five art-making processes overlayed with original poetry and music. The film is available publicly on YouTube, inviting a wide range of engagement and highlighting the importance of accessibility in both the academic and fine art worlds and exploring the therapeutic value of filmmaking and sharing. Five Spirals firmly holds an interdisciplinary space and diffuses social barriers between artist and audience, producer and consumer, creator and witness. The written supplement provides personal and ancestral context for the unfolding of the project and explores the role of creativity in spiritual practice.

2024Paloma Calloshort film, expressive arts, multimedia, music, dance, spirituality, non-dualism, religious trauma, intergenerational, anti-oppressive, relational, feminist, process-oriented honouring, hermeneutic phenomenology, poiesis