When you go down to the woods today …
Award-winning independent magazine The Lissome shares poetic stories at the intersection of Earth-centred design, mindfulness, ecology and system transformation.
For their fourth issue, the Lissome team picked up the story of the recent World 91 enactment – an enactment that brought to life a world in which mushrooms are hailed as spiritual guides – and explored it through writing, fashion photography and film. Amy was interviewed for an accompanying episode of the podcast Weaving Beings: Conversations with The Lissome.
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Words Becca Warner Photography Jack Johnstone Photography Assistance Niall Hodson Styling Aarthie Mahakuperan Set Design Imogen Frost Hair Styling Yoshi Miyazaki MUA Nina Sagri Art Direction Dörte de Jesus Models Katya Gray & Dagmar Janssen at Established Models, Kelia Ideishi at The MiLK Collective.
This Enactment was devised by Amy Twigger Holroyd, building on building on the work of Elly Platt, Talia Hussain and Martin Benes, which in turn built on a fiction by Suzanne Rowland, using a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence which allows others to share and adapt the work in any medium and for any purpose, providing that they credit the authors and share their material using the same Creative Commons licence.
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