Belonging

Dear Friend,

I realise that this is the first newsletter of the year, a year that for me has started wildly. Wild initiations into grief and letting go of love and ideas of love. And I am leaning into trust and finding support in relationships that help me stay with the unknown and the difficult feelings.

Holding. Softening. Allowing. Being.

I have started writing on my Substack in Italian this year, as some of you may have noticed, I did this in a wish of belonging myself to the culture and soil where I have chosen to live since a couple of years, it felt good to do this and scary to let go of the known and open up to new eyes, new readers. Again leaning into trust and not knowing where this is going. But the newsletter will stay in English and for now I plan to offer my work in Italian and English.

I have started to unpack my storage where I kept the art that I produced in Sweden in the years I lived at the Pink House, it really felt like a huge energetic step, one that I did not realise at the beginning would feel so important. As finally opening and integrating a part of me that I had put on standby. And some of the paintings are now for sale on my website in a small collection. I plan to renew the selection in the shop seasonally and play with it a bit, I really enjoy the curation process and working with it energetically feeling into what works, what elements are supportive for the season. Also at home I have hung a couple of the oils I did in Sweden and they have brought a grounding, a gravitas to the space that otherwise is very light and airy. This gravitas for me right now has been extremely grounding and healing. The oils were created with elements of the land such as ash, soil, broken seashells. They infuse the space with their alchemical earthy qualities. When I lived in Sweden I worked a lot with grief as an act of belonging myself to life, to land, to the ancestors the reminder of this process of rebirthing is a balm to my being right now.

Love,

Nalini