CURRENT PROJECTS
Broken Trees
Bark collages
RECENT WORK
Doer and Done to Series
Beauty Within Series
OLDER WORK
Scultpure
Hand made paper pieces
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The Ways of the Circle
yield to pull series
Intersubject series
Untitled Residue Series
Installations
Hand made books
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Mycelium Drawings
Red Thread Project
Thought Maps
Viscera Series
Etchings
Fabric pieces
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Hemlock Disappearing Act
Inside Out and Outside In
Leaving Series
Earth Bound Series
Book Cover Pieces
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Binda Colebrook is an artist and a psychotherapist. Her visual work meets at the intersection of those two fields. As an art maker, Binda listens for the emergence of a pattern, a visual expression, a gathering of ideas into coherence. It is akin to animals feeling a call in their bodies to take an action such as migration, or a flock simultaneously shifting course because of murmuration. As a psychotherapist, she supports people’s ability to fully embody themselves. Mindfulness is a key-stone to both practices.
Currently in her art practice, Binda is thinking about the human species’ relationship to the planet. Colonialism, capitalism and patriarchy have created an egoic mind structure, which has diminished the importance of having a deeply connected relationship to the planet. She sees the result of that disengagement in the lives of the people she supports as a psychotherapist. She has felt it in herself.
The patriarchal mindset assumes that the Earth’s gifts are for the taking, and that it is not necessary to give back. Our current climate crisis is a result of this imbalance. It is also mirrored in the imbalance so many humans feel. Indigenous thinking offers us all a path forward in which all is interdependent and wholeness is an attitude.
Binda is currently engaged in answering the call to follow this path. Her visual work has moved from commentary about the disengagement from self and community, toward an invitation to believe in our better selves and build hope for a sustainable future
Her hope is that the viewer too will slow down, look inward and outward simultaneously and see that they also have a role to play. If enough of us shift course, we can murmur the whole flock to shift course as well.
Currently in her art practice, Binda is thinking about the human species’ relationship to the planet. Colonialism, capitalism and patriarchy have created an egoic mind structure, which has diminished the importance of having a deeply connected relationship to the planet. She sees the result of that disengagement in the lives of the people she supports as a psychotherapist. She has felt it in herself.
The patriarchal mindset assumes that the Earth’s gifts are for the taking, and that it is not necessary to give back. Our current climate crisis is a result of this imbalance. It is also mirrored in the imbalance so many humans feel. Indigenous thinking offers us all a path forward in which all is interdependent and wholeness is an attitude.
Binda is currently engaged in answering the call to follow this path. Her visual work has moved from commentary about the disengagement from self and community, toward an invitation to believe in our better selves and build hope for a sustainable future
Her hope is that the viewer too will slow down, look inward and outward simultaneously and see that they also have a role to play. If enough of us shift course, we can murmur the whole flock to shift course as well.