Finding Children of Compost Symbionts

This project explores the use of simple craft techniques as resistance, and is a response to Haraway's call for "collaborative divergent story-making practice" in her Camille Stories: Children Compost (2016). I compost figuration that articulates life damaged world. Living composting. seeks inspire curious open thinking, build "dialogical bridge between knowledge systems” (Rose, 2020). Through agency my Symbionts (an organism living symbiosis with another), this aims engage public constructive discourse order find hope, care empathy broken The symbionts appropriate traditional handcrafted toys, like dolls bears, work way psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott called "transitional objects" (Levy, 2021) children: they carry our anxieties, rage, love, most secret thoughts, live on behalf. These whimsical tell their own stories remediation repair, encourage create new perspectives approaches, multiplicity otherness ethically.