Artist Brigid Collins and poet Christine De Luca have a key question: 

Can artistic practice – product or process – reveal spiritual reality? 

In this pocket-sized companion booklet to Such Fragile Futures: An Artist and a Poet Reflect in a Garden, Dr Kitty Wheater explores the artistry of Collins and De Luca and meditates on the themes of restoration in the natural world, connection through creative practice and the transformative power of awe.

‘In Brigid and Christine’s work, there were conversations that took place between artist and poet, but also between both and the garden. The shift I observe is, as both artist and poet posit, from separation to mutuality; but what I will draw out too is the ways in which that mutuality retains vital distinctions between plants, between plants and humans, and between garden and representation.

It is in this mutual distinctiveness, a fractal configuration of connection and distinction, that we find a certain kind of spiritual reality: a sacred geometry sensed only by those who seek.’

Dr Kitty Wheater is a mindfulness practitioner, anthropologist and writer.
She is the Mindfulness Chaplain at the University of Edinburgh.