September 1 2022
Taryn Goodwin (she/they) is a Neuro-Divergent, Disabled, Queer, Inter-Dependent Social Practice Artist, Writer, and Community Organizer.
They are invested in supporting asynchronous, trans-local, and digitally-driven connections, communities, and conversations that re-imagine working cultures and campus communities for all Mind Bodies to feel engaged and supported through the poetics of everyday life.
Goodwin’s work aims to point out the Disembodied Pace of Institutional Learning to provide an avenue for more inclusive working cultures and universities. Working with an understanding of care for our own and collective well-being AS a professional practice, and ethic of leadership.
As a graduate of Emily Carr University of Art & Design (2022) with a Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts with a major in Critical and Cultural Studies and a minor in Social Practice and Community Engagement, Taryn intrinsically uses relationships of care and mutual aid from a physical posture of rest to inform their work and working relations.
And can often to found snacking, stimming, or walking around sending audio notes on the unceded traditional territories of the Pentlach and K’òmoks Coast Salish People.
They are currently open for paid; virtual artist talks, podcasts, studio coaching, exhibitions, and one-one wellness management within curriculum design, job descriptions, and collaborative wellness-based projects in community and classroom settings alike.
DM @slow.full.organizing with like-minded requests and collaborations.
September 1 2022
0 / 75
Hammock Residency // Taryn Goodwin (she/they)
www.taryngoodwin.ca
📝 Monthly Thematic
Studio Prompts: For Quiet + Shared Contemplations
So often we rush or are rushed to figure out the finish line.
We miss the Starting Line altogether.
Thus, it is here at the Starting Line that we begin.
The moment we are intentionally called to slow down and wait.
The moment that we have prepared ourselves for.
The moment when we trust ourselves.
And the capacity of our own work.
Thus, throughout this Reflective Residency, STUDIO PROMPTS are written into each post, as your Starting Line.
STUDIO PROMPTS are ideas, insights, and care plans used to sustain myself as a Queer, Neuro-Divergent (Autistic / ADHD) & Disabled Social Practice Artist, Writer, and Community Organizer.
Built up from my lived experience from working on ways to care for and carry myself over the past 10+ years.
They are my guideposts when I get angry, experience physical or emotional dysregulation, experience brain fog, pain flares, and forget, deny or push away my own mental, emotional, relational, and physical needs, and even that I have them.
Reminding our working practices that we are emotional beings, with a full spectrum of life that exists outside integral to our creative work.
Reminding our very Bodies,
that we can’t separate our Bodies from our bodies of work.
STUDIO PROMPTS are designed for you too; journal, comment directly on the post, record an audio/video, save for later and reflect in your own ways and pacing, or do nothing at all.
Honoring that however you learn, your Body of Knowledge is the Starting Line to our own curiosities and contemplations.
It is through these reflections I hope you too see yourself and the needs you require for a sustainable life career by honoring your capacities, limits, and boundaries at your daily check-in.
Focusing on your wellness at the center – with your capacity and limitations of each changing day, made known.
It is here we start.
With a Pause of Togetherness.
In Trust. In Patience.
At the Slow-Full,
Starting Line.
Slow-Fully Yours,
Taryn Goodwin
September 2 2022
1 / 75 MULTI-GENERATIONAL LEARNING. (2011-2013)
NIC School of Fine Art & Design was an Art School for students of all ages. It was a place where lived experience, had life. And it was my first experience in the arts.
From 42-year-old engineers driven to change careers, to 60-year-old retired nurses, and single parents doing one course at a time, to 17-year-olds living at home, right out of high school. The classroom was peers, peering into different lives from their own.
It has since left a lasting impression.
It was a vision of a new school. A community classroom.
A place where life, intersects through the ages.
A place where the stories told were mentorships of their own.
It shaped my longing to discover how to share community.
To be in community.
To be part of community.
– T
🎈STUDIO PROMPT: YOURS IN COMMUNITY
How would having multi-generational classrooms, community workshops, Master Programs, PHDs, and campus communities change the culture of learning?
How can we establish multi-generational learning and mentorships in our creative + life networks?
Who would you be willing and able to mentor?
Who would you like to mentor you?
How can your next talk, workshop, or event encourage an exchange between the ages?
September 2 2022
2 / 75 NEVER A FINISHED NARRATIVE (2012)
When we give ourselves permission to revisit the past with our current agency and strength we can begin to enter a new narrative.
One that positions grief, as part of the telling.
One that makes room for anger, as a throughline.
One that steps into the quiet spaces of our lonely longing and allows it to show up in the room of our hearts.
One that doesn’t skip to the good parts.
But settles into the injustices of abandonment and neglect.
One that gives us permission to be hurt, herding back together the parts of ourselves that have since long been so scattered.
With parts of ourselves missing, we start to feel that loss as we recognize our desires for more.
It is a deep longing to reacquaint with our natural wholeness, with the sturdy function of care and compassion.
In recognizing The Structures that hold us, could never hold us up.
By creating structures of care that work for us,
we re-invent the posture of possibility.
Of a gentle, slow-full opening – ready when we are.
– T
🎈STUDIO PROMPT:
What structure of function, no longer functions for you?
What story placed upon you by others, not of your own is taking up too much space and no longer wants to be revisited? How can you set a boundary with those interpretations of who you no longer are.
How can you make yourself feel 2% more comfortable in this very moment?
How can you recognize that in doing so, you already know the very parts of what you need?
September 2 2022
3 / 75 THE ASSIGNMENT OF OPPOSITION (2011)
I remember being asked to create a drawing that was in complete opposition to my current impulses.
To work against my own grain.
To challenge my intuitive go-to practices, styles and rhythms.
To see what would happen if nothing about this process was a yes – but actually a no.
To stand at the edges of your own comfortability and forgo the urge to run.
But to slow-fully move towards, verse to run with abandonment.
– T
🎈STUDIO PROMPT:
What would doing the complete opposite of your current process, teach you about the meaning of your practice?
How would it help strengthen the awareness of what matters to you?
What would that look like?
How can you measure the differences?
How can this process be made into a personal learning chart and a graph of understanding for the delicate and flexible details of knowing yourself?
📩 WORK
Year: 2011
Title: ”Tasked with Fear”
Graphite, Collage, Mixed-Media on Veyllym
Sold: For Purchase (DM)
September 3 2022
4 / 75 DIFFERENT SURFACES (2012)
The surfaces that you work on have a story of their own.
What story would be told, or needs to be told – only made available through a surface that has a different texture, quality, and tactical relationship?
Do you typically work with canvas?
Paper and Pen? Fabric? Thread?
Ceramics? Fiber Arts? Digital Art?
What would it be like to actively question your medium of choice?
– T
🎈STUDIO PROMPT:
What is one new surface you can practice expanding your untold, and emerging stories on?
What is one material you are called to?
Perhaps because it scares you?
Or holds deep intimate meaning for you?
Is it a thrifted material?
Is it re-purposing an object in your home?
Is it something you buy from an art or hardware store?
Whatever it is,
this object holds a story for you
and it’s yours to tell.
Let your Body Talk.
📩 WORK
Year: 2011
Title: “Goodnight, Home”
Drawing on Headboard
Sold: N/A
📩 WORK
Year: 2013
Title: “Until the Night Closes, Tight”
Drawing on Crib
Sold: N/A
📩 WORK
Year: 2012
Title: “Let me Walk You Home”
Sold: N/A
September 3 2022
5 / 75 UNBOUND (2012)
Scale, pressure, the wall of support.
And the “Creative Wall”.
That block of mental and emotional wayfinding.
What happens when we explore leaning in?
To push against the very tensions we are feeling.
To exert energy towards, verse away, the thing we are fearing.
To physically lean/push on the surfaces around us with great depth and present the physical relationship with our work and our Bodies.
Let the Creative Wall feel you present.
Let the Creative Wall feel your presence.
Let the Creative Wall also know,
that you will walk away and come back when you are ready.
That you are not leaving it,
but coming back more prepared for your exchange.
That you are both allowed to take a break.
To have grace enter your relationship.
To be in a more regulated state of care.
To care for one another in a more present way.
To take the time it requires to communicate with clarity.
– T
🎈STUDIO PROMPT:
Find a large surface and push against it.
Maybe it is your wall? Or the floor? Or your bed?
Feel your strength and your exhaustion.
Feel your presence. Current + Fleeting.
Notice your hands. Notice them noticing the surface.
Noticing them gently releasing.
Lean in & release.
📩 WORK
Year: 2012
Title: “Tuesday” 6x4ft
Medium: Painting, Raw Canvas
Sold: For Purchase (DM)
September 3 2022
6 / 75 WAYFINDING (2013)
When something doesn’t work the way you like it, do you give up?
What happens if, within that frustration, lies boredom?
Or the fear of having to learn.
Wayfinding a path into one’s curiosity and exploring how one best learns by making their own way through the learning curve is a series of explorations.
A series of explorations questioning the ways we are taught, to learn.
A series of explorations investigating our big emotions and our refusal to try, as we sift through the guilt, shame, and embarrassment of our executive functioning and meltdowns.
A series of explorations, creating gentle on-ramps for ourselves to start at the pace of our necessity. To begin at the state only we are comfortable with and nothing more. To find what that is.
To start from a place of, “But, I can do this..” verse “I couldn’t ever imagine myself doing…”
To find our starting line.
– T
🎈STUDIO PROMPT:
Where can you give boredom, the gift of novelty?
How can we acknowledge boredom as something we don’t need to force ourselves through, but instead rest into?
What is one thing you can add, or invite into the said task ahead of you, to make it more comfortable/exciting?
📩 WORK
Year: 2013
Title: “Untitled” Experimental Photography Series
Sold: N/A
September 4 2022
7 / 75 ACCEPTANCE (2013)
Is there something about your MindBody you wish didn’t exist the way it does?
Perhaps it’s the way your Body shouts when you feel others only whisper. Or how it feels silent, and oh so loud.
Accepting the way our MindBodies participate in this world and thus in our studio practices are essential reminders.
It is the care we require daily in the mixing bowl of uncertainty.
When one day feels like a 10/10 and the next is below 0.
For days on end. With all the highs and lows in between.
Maybe also like me, part-time or less – is your full-time.
Maybe you and I are meant to be fully here, in our own time.
In our Full Time.
– T
🎈PROMPT:
Can you accept that today is hard?
Like really, really hard.
What can you do to give yourself permission to hurt and be angry?
What is the first word that you write down when you think about being angry?
Where does your rage lead you?
Where is the rage in your Body? Does it have something it wants to say to you? Can you listen? Will you listen?
Cry as loud as you need to.
Call a HelpLine.
Today is hard.
Let it live outside you.
Let it move through you.
📩 WORK
Year: 2012
Title: One Day to The Necks (4x4ft)
Sold: 2017, Collector: Courtenay Family Chiropractor
September 4 2022
8 / 75 COMMUNITY AS CARE (2013)
Building towards a common goal with others is one of the most energizing, enthusiastic things the unbound joy your body can feel!
It takes details, the big picture, a bird’s eye view, and the connections of all the pieces working with passionate people who are all part of something bigger, and each hold significant value.
To celebrate and showcase one another, and each other’s hard work.
To skillshare between different organizing skills.
To set limits and boundaries about what you can and can’t take on. To delegate with boundaries and capacities.
Community is the gift of Staying.
The gift of making it through the struggle together.
Of celebrating the victory, collectively together!
It is hard work of interpersonal relating, as an art and a practice.
– T
🎈STUDIO PROMPT:
What is one memory that comes to mind when you think of working collaboratively?
Can you recall someone during that time that you think of fondly?
Can you send that person a text / email / phone call today, saying how fondly you remember them and share a moment of leadership and the impact they had on you?
📩 WORK
Year: 2012-2013
Title: NIC Bi-Annual Student Art Event
Sold: N/A Community Event
September 5 2022
9 / 75 UNCONVENTIONAL (2013)
When you think outside your notebook, you require different tools.
To think and dream big you’re required to get creative, naturally!
From using hockey sticks, and janitor mops, to carpet rakes and buckets of paint – wherever you find your unconventional joy and playful spirit, may it be you!
Push the conventional. You will be glad you did!
– T
🎈STUDIO PROMPT:
How can you see your Body participate Play-Fully as part of your work day or as one small aspect of it?
What would play and pleasure mean to you today?
How would your process change? How can you measure it?
📩 WORK
Year: 2013
Title: Beyond Faults 12×8 FT Mixed Media
Sold: Permanente Collection, NIC
September 5 2022
10 / 75 ADJUSTMENT.
Notice what changes when you move cities, or homes.
How did your room change?
Your environment?
Your route?
Your social circles?
Your grocery stores?
Notice how your familiarity with life changes.
Remember;
Change is an adjustment.
Take your time.
Adjust Accordingly.
Do less.
Make more time to settle in.
Moving is a big deal.
Adjust Accordingly.
With care at the center,
– T
September 6 2022
11 / 75 UNCOVERING (2013)
Lying about our needs, as they lay on top of us.
Surfaces, unseen.
Skin, contact, pressure.
Pain made visible.
Bodies made known.
And yet we so often are conditioned to deny, our ebbs and our flows. Forgetting our existence is fluctuating.
Pretending to exist in the Bodies we do.
We conform to social scripts helping ableism thrive.
We are scared to be others’ worst nightmare,
so we show up anyways.
Not giving in, but giving up on our true nature
– the nature to rest and be at ease.
When we lay with ourselves, unmasking our very truths
we notice how hard we have been pushing.
How different we wish we could be.
How far we have squandered our ability to be gentle with ourselves.
We turn towards expressions of doing right by others but forget the right we have to do what is right for ourselves.
We take time and contort it.
Wrapped around pain, we blur it.
Focused on the tears, we forget to fully feel.
We deny our existence is hard because we forget to fully see it.
In this, may we all be reminded that we exist beyond this very moment, that we are more than this flare-up, this manic episode, this crash of depression and whorling anxieties.
We exist beyond the pressure we can’t seem to release.
We exist.
– T
🎈STUDIO PROMPTS:
In what ways do you best exist?
What pace feels most sustainable for you?
How can you measure it?
Have you been practicing that pace lately?
What areas of your life need to slow down or pick up?
Where can you let others in?
What support do you need today?
📩 WORK
Year: Fall 2013
Title: The Drawing of A Migraine
Sold: Performance / Film / Drawing
September 6 2022
12 / 75 SELF (2013)
What is a self-portrait?
A “Port that feels Right”
A place you can stop, dock, and anchor.
Where you can see yourself as your safe haven.
A place you can pull into and rest.
In your right to be yourself.
– T
🎈STUDIO PROMPT:
Set a photo-timer.
Be awkward.
Take a self-portrait. Not a selfie.
And make it your way.
Is it a close-up of your favorite body part?
Is it outside?
Indoors?
With a pet?
Are there objects around you?
Is it just the tips of your toes?
Find yourself, one portrait at a time.
📩 WORK
Year: Fall 2013
Title: Self-Portrait, Painting Studio ECUAD
Sold: N/A
September 7 2022
13 / 70 ROLL THE DICE.
Sometimes you have to take a chance on life.
To find ways that feel playful AND risky.
To engage in intrigue and excitement again.
To notice when the mundane scripts of how to… are slowing the pulse of our very heart.
Sometimes we have to roll the dice and let it guide us.
INSTRUCTIONS:
6 Sides of a Dice can equal any equation we set for it.
Roll a 1? Make one phone call to a dear friend!
Role a 4? Take four deep breaths.
Role a 5? Try 5mins of doing something you don’t want to do, knowing you can handle 5 mins of discomfort and resistance.
Each day you can create a new set of chances for your life!
And perhaps, it’s also in your studio!
For this work, each number responded to one of six paintbrushes, and a second die to 1-6 colors for that day.
The number the dice landed on, told me what brush to paint with and the second roll of the dice told me how many brush strokes to make, or how many minutes to paint for.
What will you take a chance on today?
STUDIO PROMPT:
“What would you correspond the 6 numbers with?” #CommentBelow #YourIdeas
INSTRUCTIONS:
1. Find a pair of dice, perhaps from a board game or the dollar store.
2. Bring it into your studio, or common living area, or to a project you are working on.
3. Roll the dice, have it correspond to 1-6 Actions you want to take, and with the time/amount you want to do it for! That could be mins, hours, or seconds.
4. You can write them out beforehand using a legend, or trust at the moment you will know what it means.
5. Think of your goals, daily habits, community connections, and what brings you peace of mind and heart.
Let the unknown, the spontaneity of chance, and the internal balance of awareness all be in playful relations in their belonging together.
September 7 2022
14 / 75 PERMISSION TO REST.
How often do we let ourselves purposefully slow down in public?
To rest.
To take that open sit.
To find a quiet corner.
To grab the extra back cushion at our favorite cafe.
To notice, we can be more comfortable.
To notice, we are allowed to be more comfortable.
To notice, we are allowed to be comforted.
– T
🎈STUDIO PROMPT:
How can you create more deliberate and intentional rest spots for your audiences in the creation of your work?
How can you acknowledge the Body of Knowledge and comfort during each interaction you have?
How will you choose to slow down today?
How are Slow-Full practices built into your work?
What do you do to remember your Body and Mind?
📩 WORK
Year: Fall 2013
Title: “Rest A While”
Performance, Painting & Installation
Sold: N/A
September 7 2022
14 / 75 WAYFINDERS (2014)
Some ways just don’t work for us.
No matter how much we’re told they should.
Writing and editing an essay, a short story, or a poem on a computer or even on sheets of paper stapled at the top doesn’t always register with our understanding and capacities to see and built into our learning abilities.
Your Body is Not a Learning Disability.
Sometimes it takes a new way, to find our way.
Sometimes being a learner means learning how to learn.
And challenging the way we think learning is done.
This work is based on how I edit essays, project proposals, and artist grants.
It allows my Body of Knowledge to physically cut, forum, crumple, rearrange and toss pieces of paper.
My hands become the editor, my Body the Wayfinder.
It gives me permission and the accountability to use the intuitive process of my Body as an editor.
To cut paragraphs into sentences, to see the run-on lines more readily, to note the gaps in content physically, and to feel empowered to re-arrange the work off screen and into physical reality.
To give Your eyes a break.
To turn Your Body on.
- T
🎈STUDIO PROMPT:
How can you position yourself as an investigator for your own learning style today? Where would that take you?
What learning style feels most Truth-Full to you?
How can you advocate for your right to learn?
📩 WORK
Year: 2013-2022
Title: EDITING AN ESSAY
Sold: Learning Style, Exercise
September 8 2022
15 / 75 BECOMING SOFT
How has the quicked World, hardened our hearts?
How has it given us internal doubt when taking rest or are forced to do so from our own Bodies?
How has the frantic pace of life, become the standard?
How does it keep going, when another pace is possible?
How is it possible, that we already know this other pace?
How can a shift so pivotal, tell us a tale so profound?
– T
🎈STUDIO PROMPT:
What life event has slowed you down?
What perspective did you gain from it?
What perspective did you lose from it?
What did it teach you, that in the pace of our hurried World, you may have already forgotten held great value?
How can you embrace both Worlds? The Slow and the Full.]
September 8 2022
15 / 75 THE HELPERS.
What help can you ask for today?
What areas of your life do you need assistance with?
What task, feels too small to get support on?
It is here, in the dishes, in receiving help to tie our shoes, in peeling an orange, in hanging a picture, in walking our dogs, in asking for a cooked meal, in asking for a hug – we change.
We change in the power of being surrounded by the profound mundane love that embraces our pride and seeks comfort for our shame.
Each task spoken or signed into the breath between two hearts is a moment of healing, connection, of reciprocity – when spoons are shared, and care is embodied.
When being in your body feels neutral.
Not a burden, or a hero.
But an equation that doesn’t equal worth.
We all need help.
Today, try asking someone to pass you a pen.
Start small, and smaller still.
Build your foundation.
The muscle of voice builds over time.
Knowing nothing is required in return.
That you are allowed to receive care, without needing to be injured.
That you are allowed to receive care, without keeping score.
- T
🎈STUDIO PROMPT:
Recall a helping friend.
A person in your life that stands out as a gift during a difficult period or transition in your life.
Can you reach out and thank them? Even years later? Perhaps it’s been a decade. Or maybe just a few days.
How can we bring back reminders for and to one another of the goodness we all carry.
📩 WORK
Year: 2014
Title: “Together We Walk” Crutches
Sold: Exhibited Work (2015)
September 8 2022
17 / 75 NOTICE (2014)
How can we notice the micro-movements of our own care?
When was the last time we stretched our necks?
Looked a little further into the distance.
Give ourselves the Breathe of Life.
How can we notice when it’s time for us to slow down?
To make room for our Bodies to be comforted.
To grab a snack, set a timer, or call a friend.
To go for a walk.
To lift others in connection.
To take a day for ourselves.
To stretch the possibilities of care further into their very being each day.
– T
🎈STUDIO PROMPT
What would your studio practice look like if you intentionally built your work around your care practices?
How would your practice shift or change?
What would those practices be?
What is one small and intentional movement of care can you give yourself today?
📩 WORK
Year: 2014
Title: “Tiny Drawings of Big Motions”
Sold: For Purchase (DM)
September 9 2022
16 / 75 SURRENDER. (2014)
Surrender to the Body we have been given.
Surrender to the Body we want to evaporate from.
Surrender to the Body we have been given as a teacher.
Surrender to the Body we can learn to stay with and be angry at.
Surrender to the Body we can learn to trust deeper and be scared of.
Surrender to the Body that is with us, in this very moment.
Surrender to the Body that will become, in the very next.
Surrender to the Body that is ever-changing, and ever-present.
Surrender to the quiet whispers, the angry whispers, the grieving whispers.
There is more time than our pain-flared Bodies think we have.
Text Reads:
“Find all your organs and hug them.
Find all your bones and thank them.
Find all your muscles and cradle them.
Find all your bones and hug them.
Find all your organs and cradle them.
Find all your muscles and thank them.
Find all your muscles and hug them.
Find all your bones and cradle them.
Find all your organs and thank them.”
– T
🎈STUDIO PROMPT:
How can you hold the hurting part of yourself with a gesture of grace today?
How can you recognize that hurting is really hard?
What would this look like as a drawing, sculpture, painting, or poem? How can you see ourselves outside of ourselves today?
📩 WORK
Year: 2014
Title: “Find All your Bones & Hug Them”
Sold: N/A, Collector
September 9 2022
16 / 75 ENLIVEN.
When was the last time you felt so enlivened by a question on your heart?
When that what if, triumphed the why!
That the curiosity of another way took shape so strongly it was an anchor and a kite.
When your conviction rose from the thorns, and you knew.
You knew.
You’ve always known.
Another way was possible.
And you can see it’s becoming, already made in the mind.
As you dream clearly in your living moments, fully awake.
You have always known it was possible.
– T
🎈STUDIO PROMPT:
What questions do you carry on your heart?
What life is a dream, you are dreaming of?
Or scared to even see the edges unfold for its magnificence is brightness unparalleled?!
What bold entry into this World does your uniqueness want to savor and concur?
Let your questions and fondness tell your story.
Let them Re-Member your Unfolding Life, xo
September 9 2022
17 / 75 UNKNOWNS (2015)
Years can pass before; events, decisions, or circumstances make sense.
Until the dots of time, connect themselves.
Until you see the dots, through the string of time.
We collect memories and experiences without knowing that one day their relationship with appear.
We built without knowing we are building.
We approach life with the happenings at our fingertips, unaware of them happening.
And one day, it all happens.
We ponder the space between the thoughts that brought this very moment together.
We awe at the passages of depth and shallows between.
We wonder if another hour or min, or city, or class, or train was taken how different our lives would be.
We see life in a series of split seconds.
For the moments we tried again when wanting to give up.
When we listened to that intuitive pulse of love, to take a left or to stay a little longer, or leave when we felt called – that knowing within that carries us further than our calendars could ever know.
It is here, that we see the infinite dots, and wonder.
In the awe of our togetherness.
– T
🎈STUDIO PROMPT:
What are two seemingly opposing objects in front of you?
Is there something shiny? Rough?
Organic? Or something formed.
What is different between those two objects?
Speak them out loud.
What do you notice is the same?
Speak those out loud.
Can they relate to one another in a newly imagined way?
What could they be used for in this new fantastical way together?
What story did you find between them?
📩 WORK
Year: 2014-2017
Title: “Life Supports” Mixed Media & Drawings
Sold: For Purchase (DM)
September 10 2022
18 / 75 WANDERING (2014)
To the wandering places of our hearts, in our hands.
The movements of spontaneous and sacred ways.
Touching the place of knowing,
before we have reason to describe it.
It moves quicker than words.
It acts faster than intended.
It moves beyond the now.
It lifts us into action, not of anger or fear, but quietly with assertive place-making, knowing that we belong for change.
We place ourselves beyond plans, and into the planet.
We find ourselves above ourselves,
in awe of our becoming home.
We know what to do when that place of knowing touches down.
We feel the world,
before it can be written.
Or spoken or signed.
- T
🎈STUDIO PROMPT:
Something feels out of place.
What is it?
Is there something under a pile you want to go and get?
Is there a bin you know has been looking for you too?
What object do you want to move around and re-place in your home?
You are in control.
Objects are not static.
And neither is furniture.
Nor are the environments in public spaces.
Make yourself comfortable.
Make yourself feel in place.
Make the space functional for you.
📩 WORK
Year: 2014
Title: “Community Cafe” Installation
Sold: N/A
September 10 2022
19 / 75 THE ART OF GATHERING (2014-2015)
There is an art to gathering, to listening, to witnessing questions unfold.
To hold space inwardly, and expand space for others externally.
The gathering doesn’t mean an event or meet up in-person.
It can mean in memory.
Or through digital, online communities and dear friends, you’ve never met in person. Or in asynchronous ways of care and connection.
Gathering isn’t limited to mean, people at the same time.
How we gather can include more of our sensory, social, and care needs if we let them. With intention of togetherness.
What is your favorite way to understand the art of gathering?
- T
🎈STUDIO PROMPT:
How can you gather ideas and communities digitally?
How can you gather online using asynchronous connections?
How can you gather the need to travel, outside of the equation?
How has your ideas of gathering shifted from the post-pandemic world?
Can we embody that way again?
📩 WORK
Year: 2014
Title: “The Creative Commons”
Sold: Campus Community Workshop + Discussion
Year: 2015
Title: Educational Technology User’s Group
Sold: “Unlearning Architecture: A Student’s Journey”
September 11 2022
20 / 75 GIVE YOURSELF TIME.
How often do we find ourselves hurrying towards a goal, a destination, or an outcome and at the same time losing hope?
How does the constructed and fabricated equation of time define us?
What would happen if we gave ourselves, time?
Time to release all expectations of a “realistic deadline”
Time to collapse all ideas of productivity and the rate at which we assume it works.
Time to question the social scripts of a timetable, not built from a table of care or well-being.
And landed in the softness, not of the ticking of hands but of the circle and seasons of time.
The Season of Time to function in the spaciousness of our long-lost daydream.
The Quiet Season.
A place to practice scheduling time for daydreaming.
To get lost in our thoughts again.
And delight in the pleasure of staying there a little longer.
– T
🎈STUDIO PROMPT:
How can we welcome ourselves into our own Quiet Season of Life? To affirm in our own delight again.
What does your Quiet Season consist of?
How often does it occur? How often would you like it to?
What is your Quiet Season?
📩 WORK
Year: 2014
Title: Photo of a Cafeteria Table
with some of Taryn’s Favourite Things
Sold: N/A
September 11 2022
21 / 75 WHAT IF … (2016)
What if, we graded wellness instead of a paper or a course outcome?
What If, we built a metric of learning that was trauma-informed, disability-led, and neuro-divergent friendly?
What if, the most important thing that mattered to our learning was how we left while doing so?
How would the Culture of Academia Change?
What would listening to your wellness AS a pillar of academic success mean to you as a student/ teacher / staff / parent?
– T
🎈STUDIO PROMPT:
What structures would you like to re-purpose?
Is there a way you can integrate the old, with the new?
Perhaps it doesn’t need to be all or nothing.
But a transition between the change.
A proposal for adjustment.
To feel the safety of the old and familiar and lean into the new.
Can you repurpose your personal agency?
📩 WORK
Year: 2016
Title: “The Grade of Well-Being”
Sold: Public Domain
September 11 2022
22 / 75 DISABILITY AS JUSTICE (2016)
When have you felt spoken for, or about without consent or full agreement?
When did the words shared where you were asked to sign on the dotted line, not match your capacity and full intentions of living?
How can you translate the social scripts of limited justice in policy, practices, and procedures that police our aliveness into a world that you can fully occupy?
– T
🎈STUDIO PROMPT:
What document would you like to re-write and insert yourself into fully?
How we can empower ourselves as Disabled and / or Neuro-Divergent MindBodies to claim our space in policy, not have words written about us.
Remember, if someone wrote it once, we can re-write it again!
📩 WORK
Year: 2016
Title: “The Confidentiality of Access:
A Disability Students’ Manifesto”
Sold: Public Domain, for Download on
www.taryngoodwin.ca
September 12 2022
23 / 75 MAKE YOUR ACCESS: DIY STYLE (2014)
When the pace of learning is disembodied, where does learning begin?
How can we make our pace possible?
When barriers to access are filed in a cabinet, what happens when you realize you can DIY and self-advocate?
How can you build a DIY Self-Advocating Access Toolkit?
When an environment doesn’t work for you, can you make it work for yourself?
– T
🎈STUDIO PROMPT:
How can we make access, accessibility, and accommodations something that doesn’t require paperwork?
To affirm experiences of our daily purpose doesn’t need to be approved, signed, or made “official” by a body or bureaucratic system that isn’t your own.
How can you make access for your way of living, an affirming lifestyle choice?
📩 WORK
Year: 2014
Title: “The Art School, Lecture Series” Performance + WayFinding
Sold: N/A
September 12 2022
24 / 75 OPENING UP OPTIONS. (2015)
What if there were more options than we believed to be given?
What if there was a way to purposefully and with intention leave, come back, and try again?
What if that option was built in, but not spoken of.
What if there was more to finishing than just the finish line.
What if we knew when we needed a break, but never understood we could ask for one, let alone take it?
What happens when access, doesn’t get spoken of?
You can take a Year or a Semester Leave of Absence and still hold your academic standing.
Take a break. It is given, just not easily made know.
Ask you Advising / Accomodations / Access / Registar Office.
- T
🎈 STUDIO PROMPT:
Is there a pause you can advocate for?
Is there a way when the answers, decisions, or choices aren’t available to you to access yet, you can request a break from having to make a decision?
How can you advocate for a break?
Can you accept permission to step back, and enter into a Quiet Season of your own conviction?
📬 Who here has taken an academic break?
What was your experience?
Why would you advise and advocate for others to take one!?
September 13 2022
25 / 75 PONDER.
Welcome the stillness of the unknown,
without having to solve the future.
Be still.
Stand still.
Stiller, still.
You are here.
And here can be scary.
And it can also be still.
Ponder.
Let Grief rise.
Let the tears of your heart fill with injustice.
Let the wave crash.
Watch the wave crash and let it reach the shore.
Watch it reach the shore. Watch it stretch out into stillness.
We are but water, and all her waves.
– T
🎈STUDIO PROMPT:
How can you be still for one purposeful moment today?
How can you deliberately press pause, and step into the intention of awe?
How can you let stillness be an advocate for care and resistance to the grind?
Can you stay longer, then is comfortable? Even for a minute more.
Can you feel the urgency start to tell its own lie, and even ramp up?
Can you call urgency’s bluff?
📩 WORK
Year: 2015
Title: Photo from my walks, close to Granville Island
Sold: N/A
September 13 2022
26 / 75 PAIN DAYS (2015)
Invisible.
Hard to process.
Hard to imagine life without.
Chronic, episodic, or situational trauma-led pain flares part of being in one’s Body is exhausting.
It is okay that you are tired.
This is hard, unpaid, emotionally intense, and physically draining work.
It’s okay that have scrolled for days and are finding yourself wearing your favorite clothes for days on end, cause changing textures feels like too much right now.
Invisible, doesn’t mean not happening.
You are hurting. This is hard.
This is frustrating. This is grief.
These are pain days and the spoonie life.
Days to predict, are too unpredictable.
This is really hard.
Really, really, really hard.
And you are soft,
let your anger be spent.
Let your tears be maps for the way out, xo
I know you want to hide.
I know you want to scream.
I know you want to be held.
I know these feelings, as I feel them too.
– T
🎈STUDIO PROMPT:
How can your Body be held by paper today?
Hugged by the sensations of pen to paper, mapped into existence?
Does the map look like an object verse a body?
Does this object have anything they want to say?
What do they need? What do they want?
Where can you feel the most energy?
Where is a place of neutrality?
Where is a place of quiet awakening?
What sensations are found on the page?
Is there a color? Temperature?
Texture? Do they have a sound?
What message would your body send you, if it could speak your most honest desire?
📩 WORK
Year: 2015
Title: Pain Maps + Tiny Drawings
Sold: Available For Purchase, DM
September 13 2022
27 / 75 Land-Scape (2015)
Woofing. Rent Free. Labour Exchanged.
Meltdowns. And Sensory Overwhelm. Without knowing those words.
Expanding what my yes was, but knowing what my no is.
I want to go back to concrete and sidewalks.
Hi Body. I see you trying. I see you listening. I see you in pain.
Exploring a change of scenery.
Living a different life.
Gratitude for farmers and folks who tend to animals.
Your Labour is HARD. Your resiliency is astonishing.
Your care is intangible. Your work is invaluable.
Thank you, xo
– T
🎈STUDIO PROMPT:
How can you take the time to explore a new area of your internal or external landscape today?
Is it walking a different side street, on an evening walk?
Or changing the direction of a thought?
Is it going the long way on purpose?
Is it taking lefts, instead of rights?
Is it doing the opposite of what you are used to doing?
Is it stopping at the color yellow every time you see it, and playing a game of eye-spy with the world?
Exploring doesn’t need to be on a trip with a plane, or a train.
It can be in the way you see it the everyday.
Travel isn’t always available to all Bodies.
What is your version of travel?
📩 WORK
Year: 2015
Title: WOOFING (1 Month April-May 2015)
Location: Abbotsford, with the lovely family of Goat’s Pride Dairy
September 14 2022
28 / 75 EARTHLY DELIGHTS (2015)
My wild is here.
In the everyday.
My great outdoor adventure is to the park or on the way home, or to your house.
It’s everywhere I am looking for life.
It’s never far, always near.
My wild, is here.
Close to heating pads, my care team, beds and baths.
And routine and structure.
Seeing something new is enough change for me.
My wild, is here.
🎈STUDIO PROMPT:
Can you touch the ground today?
Did you reach for the carpet? Hardwood flooring? A rug?
Did you go outside and find the earth?
Were yo meet with grass? Rocks? Concrete? Softness?
Was it hot? Cold? Soothing? Alarming? Prickly? Tender?
How can we touch the Earth today?
Can we stay a little longer?
Can we even lie down?
Can we make it feel special?
Perhaps we even need to move spots.
What landscape is landing for you today?
📩 WORK
Year: 2015
Title: On my way home from a hard day at work
Sold: N/A
September 14 2022
29 / 75 ABONDON TRADITION (2015)
What if a school existed to one day not exist?
What would happen if you could build a school based on knowing it would end?
What happens when we intentionally create containers of care, with an endpoint at the begging?
– T
🎈STUDIO PROMPT:
What is something you can start, with a definite ending?
How would you define that ending? What metric would you use?
In the number of hours? Mins? Days? Months?
Or in the number of calls? Connections? Exchanges made?
Roll a Digital / Real Dice, start with the number as your on-ramp.
Draw an association with it.
Example: 3 = 3 days etc
And begin to create for the end.
📩 WORK
Year: 2015
Title: The School For Eventual Vacancy
Lead by: Justin Langlois
September 14 2022
30 / 75 CONTAINERS (2015)
When we intentionally build containers for our philosophy and practice of wellness to exist in this world, we have a guidepost.
We can say no, based on our principles AND our practices.
We have a reference point.
What’s yours?
– T
🎈STUDIO PROMPT:
What’s your mantra for saying No, first?
How can you build a culture of wellness?
At work?
In your relationships?
The way you work?
Loosely plan a possible yearly calendar or weekly timetable.
What do the structures of your day look like when you are intentionally building a culture of wellness?
How can we check up on ourselves, with this system of care?
📩 WORK
Year: 2015
Title: Notes from a Sketchbook
Sold: N/A
September 15 2022
31 / 75 WILD ABONDONMENT (2015)
When abandonment is fear-based it is hard to process the reality of every day.
When abandonment is a choice of expression to move boldly with the intention of joy, play, whimsy, and child-like awe and wonder we can begin to gently re-quest the need for control.
We can give abandonment a new direction to land safely in our hearts as we try new, and try again.
- T
🎈STUDIO PROMPT:
What expression of PLAY excites you the most?
What do you remember doing from childhood that captured your imagination center and pleasure fondly?
Can you re-enact that today?
What would it take?
📩 WORK
Year: 2015
Title: At the Lake with my Cousins
Sold: N/A
September 15 2022
32 / 75 DESTINATION (2015)
Nothing is a straight line.
Even a ruler has dents in it.
And a paved road has bumps in it.
– T
🎈STUDIO PROMPT:
What did you think was a straight line in your life, before you actually took the journey?
What stands out for you about the time in your life?
Draw that time in your life as one continuous movement – without lifting your pen.
What does that line or shape look like?
What does it remind you of?
What does it tell you?
📩 WORK
Year: 2015
Title: A drawing done on transit
Sold: N/A
September 16 2022
33 / 75 OVERTIME.
To the Bodies that have been bullied by the medical system, lost in language that isn’t our own, this poem is for you.
“The Slower My Pen Moved”
“The slower my pen moved,
the more details of My Body I could feel.
As the ink hugged the page, softly in a rhythm of it’s own.
It turned an invisible pain, visible.
The in—dents traced to the paper were no accident.
Using My Body as a map to visually navigate,
“So, how intense is your pain today?”
I could look at the drawings born from closed eyes, traced along the meridians of pain throughout my nervous system and could describe
TRANSLATE
TELL ME MORE
FOR HOW LONG
Do you remember the first time?
More accurately and more compassionately than any doctor’s visit, pain management chart, or medically documented language I was prescribed to use, label and record my symptoms post head injury, turned nerve damage, turned fibromyalgia turned, over and over in my mind, as I fought over and over with my Body— I finally realized, I was told to understand something using a language I could never hear from over there.
Reciting the lines hand-drawn from My Own Body,
I could finally talk.
Mark making became a way to communicate what did not, what could not, come when asked to speak.
Eyes closed, I listened to the radiating pain, where it was coming from, and the stories held beneath.
And from a slowness that almost stopped,
armed with blue ink as my counselor and guide, I traced My Body to paper.
…. POEM CONTINUED IN THE COMMENTS….
STUDIO PROMPT:
Write about the poetics of your process.
Pick one of your artworks you enjoy.
Write the reasons and processes we can not see.
Let the process re-embody you.
Feel your way through the work again.
Re-make it but through your writing.
How do those two things respond and interact with one another?
📩 WORK
Year: 2015 Drawings. Poem 2017
Title: “The Slowing My Pen Moved”
Sold: DM for Purchase
September 16 2022
36 / 75 ONE THING AT A TIME.
Learning I could take ONE COURSE at a time was
life-changing.
As an undergraduate student, I didn’t know you could deliberately, and without consequence slow down the pace of your studies, even beyond the full-time and part-time models.
It’s not in any Student Guide Book, Program Evaluation, or Intake Form. It’s part of the Hidden Academic Agenda.
It’s beyond the ableist/capitalist
FULL TIME or PART TIME models.
It’s inventing a new world of mindful work.
It’s situated in YOUR FULL TIME.
No matter what that looks like.
Why aren’t these options of care, made more readily available?
What can you do to find out the different options for your studies? Ask. Request. Lean in. Try on. Practice Newness.
“Can I just take one course at a time?”
- T
🎈STUDIO PROMPT:
What is that one thing you can do today, that is single action – without any interruptions? What is your, One thing at a time?
Remember, it doesn’t need to be completed just given undivided attention today. One minute at a time. Create that space. Let it feel spacious.
September 17 2022
37 / 75 BEING HELD (2016)
“The Ideal School Project” was built from friendship and the gift of active listening. Thank you to @__aliwest, who gave me permission to express myself freely, on the balcony of the Granville Island South Building in between the hope of tears, fears, and a future unfolding.
They took notes from my flow of consciousness capturing my own relationship with institutional learning. The one I wanted.
And wanted to be part of making happen.
It began a guidepost in my work, from the way it was built.
She was a note-taker of the Soul, which I couldn’t capture on my own.
Ali typed up my thoughts and presented this yellow scroll back to me as an ethic of our relationship. It was a profound act of togetherness. Better together.
It was made from the intimacy of attending to the heart giving a time capsule of someone’s life at the time. To which I am forever grateful, and still moved by to this day.
How can you re-gift the voices of those around you?
How can friendship be at the centre of a working methodology?
How can Neuro-Divergent learning styles be part of the creative process?
– T
🎈STUDIO PROMPT:
If your life had a philosophy, what would it be?
What would that philosophy look like as a list?
Create a list of your own care practices, habits, and reminders for every time we will inevitably forget and need reminding.
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.
📩 WORK
Year: 2016
Title: “The Ideal School Project” in collaboration and gifted from @__aliwest
Sold: N/A
September 17 2022
38 / 75 TIME TO GO (2016)
When you notice you are pushing water uphill, it’s time to go.
Be it a project, a relationship, a school, or
a self-prescribed identity.
It’s time to shift, pivot, and try again without the struggle at the center of that relationship.
It’s not giving up, it’s letting go.
What can you drop in your life,
so you can make room for more ease?
– Taryn Goodwin
🎈STUDIO PROMPT:
How can you quit something that isn’t right for you, for right now?
Can you stop forcing yourself to show up where you don’t want to put your true, highest energy to go anymore?
What is making you tired?
What feels like an obligation?
Make small changes to reduce the affect it has on your schedule.
One 1% at a time.
Quitting isn’t all or nothing, it’s adjusting to re-calibrate our current capacity. Honoring that in every season, literal and figuratively changes.
September 17 2022
39 / 75 TEACHING (2018)
If I could give one lesson over and over to a group of students and lifelong learners it would be this;
“Your Body Is Not A Learning Disability”
The way you learn is not wrong.
The time you take is not a defect of the default.
You were never taught how your Mind / Body thinks!
So you aren’t aware your own intelligence exists.
Together we can learn to achieve awareness of how you learn.
And we get to practice this together.
PS Your Learning Style is Not a Learning Disability either!
– Taryn Goodwin
🎈STUDIO PROMPT
What advice would you give to someone younger who is struggling in school or at work?
What advice and support would you offer them?
What story from your own experience of struggle would you share with them?
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.
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📩 WORK
Year: 2018
Title: “Your Body Is Not A Learning Disability”
Sold: Artist Talk, Powerpoint Slide, Writer’s Series – NIC
September 18 2022
40 / 75 PIVOT.
Thinking of the last 5 years, what has been a pivot life has surprised you with?
Where are you now in a positive area of your life that you couldn’t have imagined 5 years ago.
How can we deliberately connect the dots back to this very;
event, relationship, goal, project, location that made today possible?
How has that one choice years ago significantly impacted your life today? How can we watch the unfolding of our own life, on replay?
September 18 2022
41 / 75 TIME STAMP (2017)
How can your Body provide a time signature that leads to greater awareness?
How is your Body unlocking information to guide you?
How can we ask our Bodies to talk?
*The Exercise below is how this work is done*
- Taryn Goodwin
🎈STUDIO PROMPT:
EXERCISE: “BODY TALKS” with Taryn (Q+A with Your Self)
1. Write a leading question with your dominant hand at the top of a page.
2. Respond below with your non-donimate writing hand.
Let it be messy, and intuative.
3. Continue to write the questions with your dominate hand by integrating your non-dominate written answers back in.
4. Finish the conversation at the bottom of the page.
What did your inner logic and wisdom guide you towards?
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📩 WORK
Year: 2017
Title: Body Talks Exercise
Sold: Workshop
September 20 2022
45 / 75 THE RETURN (2020)
The Crisis of the Global Health Pandemic granted me access to education.
“Who are the other Disability Artists’ at ECU?”
– Taryn’s 2016 Notebook
September 20 2022
46 / 75 ARRIVE ALIVE (2020-22)
Communication doesn’t have to be boring.
It can be alive! And full of life!
Loom.com is a way to provide personal connections in a remote and digital work world!
It brings the joy of email, back to the forefront!
Make your emails messages of joy and connection.
Send your first Loom today!
Taryn Goodwin
🎈STUDIO PROMPT:
What app do you want to share that supports your access needs and empowers your authentic communication / learning style to shine?
Comment Below!
📩 WORK
Year: 2020-22
Title: LOOM, Software
Sold: Free + Paid Subscriptions Available
September 21 2022
47 / 75 THE ART MARKET, IS NOT REAL. (2020)
You don’t need to be supported by a gallery.
Have a huge portfolio. Go to networking events.
Or have solo or group exhibition that includes work hanging walls.
THAT, ART MARKET is not expansive enough to contain the way we can curate, express, build, and active social change
in trans-local, remote and connected ways outside of regional access.
There is a new way to curate.
There is a new way to build community.
There is a new way to organize with wellness at the centre.
There is always a new way.
Care is a practice.
So let’s practice it together in our careers and business too!
– Taryn Goodwin
🎈STUDIO PROMPT:
How can you build your own way forward?
What idea would you pitch to bring CommUnity together?
📩 WORK
Year: 2020
Title: PREVIOUS Call For Submissions
“Catalogue: The Missing Culture of ECUAD”
In Partnership with the ECU Library
September 21 2022
48 / 75 ACCESS IS A LEARNING STYLE (2020)
How many ways can we provide access when we call people forward?
Can you suggest a “READ ALONG” for your Call for Submission?
What happens when we de-centralize the written word,
and centralize human connection first?
How would your communications change?
- Taryn Goodwin
🎈STUDIO PROMPT:
Create a “Read Along”
Loom.Com / Upload to YouTube / Share with Written Copy
– Job Post Looking to Hire
– Welcoming Your Team
– Reading Health Benefit Packages
– Social and IRL Event Post
– Call for Submissions
– Class Welcome ect
📩 WORK
Year: 2020
Title: Community Organizing. Loom Video.
Sold: N/A
September 22 2022
49 / 75 COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS (2020)
Continuing to support the vision, goal, promise, and mindset of CommUnity requires the empowerment, care and dedication of other people.
Find those that uplift your story.
Find those that want to support your vision.
Find those that are the kind of people you want to work with.
And work with them
-Taryn Goodwin
🎈STUDIO PROMPT:
Who will you ask for support this week, to share your work?
How will you share the invitation, to support someone else’s work too?
📩 WORK
Year: 2021
Title: INTERVIEW // with Michelle Cyan
Sold: Public Domain
September 22 2022
50 / 75 BUILD THE INFRASTRUCTURE (2021)
To read the words of a story similar reflective of your own is a gift of the written word. It is here, in books, in podcasts, in audio stories that we come alive in hearing ourselves be spoken for the first time.
It is here, in shelves of a library that host the worlds we wish to know more of.
You’re too written amongst them.
Find yourself there, already made know.
Already present.
Already there.
- Taryn Goodwin
🎈STUDIO PROMPT:
What was the last book you read that made you find a part of yourself?
What book would you recommend for Neuro-Divergent and or Disabled Folks to read / listen to that has changed your life?
***Any book recommendations below I will pass on to the ECU Library team to add to their university libraries collection! – Thanks for your support!***
September 23 2022
51 / 75 QUESTION YOUR OWN WORK (2021)
When was the last time you interviewed your own process?
Is it working?
How could it be done differently?
What can you learn from it?
What would you change?
- Taryn Goodwin
🎈STUDIO PROMPT:
Give yourself permission to request your own performance review.
Evaluate your work, process, and progress.
Track your growth and give yourself feedback, and praise.
Don’t forget, you are in charge of your care and kindness too.
📩 WORK
Year: 2021
September 23 2022
52 / 75 JOIN US TODAY.
Sign up for our Weekly Thursday 11:30 PST Zoom Social
and our CommUnity Discord Chat Channels!
@ecu_disability_collective
^ Link In Bio ^
📩 WORK
Year: Founder, April 1 2021 – Present Day
September 23 2022
53 / 75 SOCIAL CONNECTION (2020)
Where you are is a place.
Where you are in a location.
You do not have to move, travel or be anywhere to meet up.
Meet your body where it is.
Resist the urge, to do more.
Taryn Goodwin
🎈STUDIO PROMPT:
How can you schedule your next meeting, as a audio-note?
As an email?
As a Zoom chat?
As a walking, phone call?
📩 WORK
Year: 2020-22
September 24 2022
54 / 75 CONTINUED CONNECTIONS.
- T
🎈STUDIO PROMPT:
📩 WORK
Year: 2016 / Exhibition 2020
Title:
Sold:
September 24 2022
55 / 75 SUMMER TIME SIMMER (2021)
What brings your joy?
What simple delights can be found in your neighbourhood?
What would it take for you to notice them?
🎈STUDIO PROMPT:
How can you highlight simple joy today?
What can you do to recognize your ability to receive joy?
📩 WORK
Year: 2021
Title: Camera Roll Photo
Sold: N/A
September 25 2022
57 / 78 SIT, STAY. (2021)
How can we build stillness into our studio practices?
As an integral part of the work?
Where can you find stillness today?
– Taryn Goodwin
STUDIO PROMPT:
What would make your studio space more available for rest, and comfort?
What could you do to make ease more readily available for you?
📩 WORK
Year: 2021
Title: Studio Shot, Working on a Commission
Sold: To Collector
September 25 2022
58 / 78 I WISH. (2022)
I wish for a World where art collectives offered health benefits.
Where funding models meet the needs of marginalized folks and families.
Where there was less red tape, more green grass, and blue skies. Where access was accessible.
– Taryn Goodwin
STUDIO PROMPT:
What does mutual aid look like in your non-profit, company, small business, or income stream structure?
How can we make sure we are financially adding up to support one another?
September 26 2022
59 / 78 YOU ARE NEURO-ESSENTIAL. (2021)
You’re an essential part of the equation.
Not something to add, or subtract.
But, part of the Equation itself.
STUDIO PROMPT:
Where have you felt essential lately?
Why was that?
📩 WORK
Year: 2022
Title: YOU ARE NEURO-ESSENTIAL STICKER
Sold: DM for Purchase
September 26 2022
60 / 78 LET IT BE YOU (2021)
How can your work show up as you in the World?
What would make that possible?
What process is you, learning, you?
STUDIO PROMPT:
How can you interview your own work?
How can you ask it for direction?
What would happen if productivity, became a conversation instead of a to-do list?
📩 WORK
Year: 2021
Title: TEXT from Essay
Sold: N/A
September 26 2022
61 / 78 EMPOWER (2021)
When something doesn’t feel right, do something about it.
When job postings that are hiring for Disabled and Neuro-Divergent MindBodies don’t reflect the people they are wanting to hire. You re-write the application. You show up as your MindBody. You insert yourself into the application.
You based it on reality.
With realistic, labor expectations.
You design and empower a new culture of practicality and care.
STUDIO PROMPT:
What is one thing that stops you from applying to jobs?
How would you re-frame that in the application so it’s not a barrier or a requirement?
Ask yourself, why and how did it even become a requirement?
How does the application leave out as a result?
What benefits would occur if there weren’t so many barriers to applying for work?
📩 WORK
Year: 2021
Title: PAST* “Call for Collaboration: Writing Workshop, “Systems Change: Cripping Job Applications”
Sold: Funded
September 27 2022
62 / 78 CommUnity Organizing (2021)
Gathering people, who gather and generate ideas is one element of any project.
Learning how to organize, care for, and support each person within a group and project is a function of well-being.
It is a process of taking the time, to take time.
To really listen.
To fully support.
To insert care as a practice.
To put people first.
-Taryn Goodwin
STUDIO PROMPT:
What project have you led that you are really proud of?
What stood out for you the most with that work?
📩 WORK
Year: 2021
Title: Community Organizing
Sold: Funded
September 27 2022
63 / 78 A New Relationship (2021)
How have you had to build a new relationship with your Body?
What gave you the permission to question the narrative of a Body always on the go?
When did you learn you can learn a new way of being with your Body?
– Taryn Goodwin
STUDIO PROMPT:
Close your eyes.
Soften your shoulders, downwards.
Gentle move your toes.
Stretch your neck, side to side.
Be kind to your Body.
📩 WORK
Year: 2021
Title: Care As A Practice w. Collaborators & Partnerships
Sold: Funded
September 28 2022
64 / 78 ASK FOR HELP. 2020-2022
When was the last time you tried again at something you have completely written off?
Something you knew you would need support in completing?
Something you had to start, but you knew others would be required to help you along the way?
We don’t do things alone.
What is one way you can ask for support today?
Who is one person you can reach out to for support today?
Or start an email, and let it sit in your draft inbox till you are ready to press send.
STUDIO PROMPT:
“Do you have a list of things you need support with in your life/studio/career?
Make a list of all the areas in your life where you can ask for help, and with what? Be specific. Include details.
Notice, what those are. Notice how they bring more connection into your life. Notice they are uncomfortable too.
Allow yourself to see where support would be helpful.
September 28 2022
65 / 78 SURRENDING CONTROL. (2022)
How can you give up control?
Where can you reduce the pressure to be in control?
When can you see that being useful?
Often we figure we must do it ourselves.
On our own. With no one watching.
Or that we have to figure out all the pieces to a puzzle before we hand it off to someone else.
The trick is to learn what is yours, and what you can have others do?
Perhaps it’s hanging a painting?
Or delivering it.
Whatever it is, know you don’t have to do it all.
Even when it is your work.
– Taryn Goodwin
STUDIO PROMPT:
What is something you feel you need to do it all on your own?
Can someone else do it for you? How can you delegate it?
What would it take for you to hand that over?
What would you need to communicate?
📩 WORK
Year: 2022
Title: INSTALL // “The Weeping of Willows”
Sold: Collector
September 28 2022
66 / 78 SHOWCASE (2022)
What books do you want to showcase?
What stories do you want to tell?
How can you design a collection in your local libraries as a legacy for all the voices that have come before you?
Words that will continue to share their impact on those beginning to find the words to describe their experiences?
STUDIO PROMPT:
What book would you want to be discovered by another person?
What is your top recommended book, that has changed your life and life view?
📩 WORK
Year: 2021-22
Title: Catalogue Exhibition // ECU Library Collaboration
Sold: In Partnership
September 29 2022
67 / 78 INVITATIONS. (2022)
When is the last time you invited someone to celebrate your work and achievements?
What is an achievement lately, that you would love to share with a friend?
How can we fill our circles with the connection of our owning our hard work, showing up for ourselves, and being unafraid to ask for affirming support?
How can we invite ourselves to take up more space?
STUDIO PROMPT:
What is one way you can showcase your work online and let your community of friends know what you’ve been up to?
How can you build your own momentum by inviting people into celebrating your success?
What project do you want to share with those in your life, that really lights you up. Can you post about it today?”
📩 WORK
Year: 2022
Title: Disability Artist Q+A, Grad Talk (BFA)
Sold: Ticketed Event – Sliding Scale
September 29 2022
68 / 78 ON YOUR OWN TERMS (2022)
Graduation wasn’t something I wanted to do.
Not traditionally anyways.
I didn’t want to be in an auditorium.
With back-to-back days of travel and sensory overwhelm / stimulation.
Not with a cap, or a gown.
And those itchy tags/fabrics.
Or that sticky feeling of sweat.
Or all those sensory auditorial inputs.
I wanted my graduation to be something my Body could enjoy.
Where it would feel nourished and uplifted, in and around my community.
A ceremony that would match my sensory care needs and the deep feelings and experiences of joy and care being surrounded by my most intimate and foundational relations!
A ceremony that prioritize my ND self, fully.
I wanted a ceremony that would match the equation of Taryn, not subtract from it.
I wanted to graduate on my own terms.
Through and through.
STUDIO PROMPT:
How can you see the equation of yourself in one thing, that you decided to do?
If you didn’t know how something was done how would you personally do it / figure it out?
Maybe it’s figuring out YOUR WAY to do the dishes, or time management, or pace your social relationships? How would you do it?
How can you catch the Spirit of you in action.
📩 WORK
Year: 2022
Title: BFA, Back Yard Graduation Ceremony
September 29 2022
69 / 78 RESET (2021)
How can we re-visit the formats of production to captivate our learning styles?
To showcase our second nature, not second guess it.
To lean into our ND ways, and abilities and into the discovery of what feels good and natural for our wellness and excitement.
To stand, verse to sit.
To pace, versus to make eye contact.
To think on the move.
To talk with your hands.
To process out loud.
Hi, Body! Podcast is built on the move.
Using low-tech, stim-friendly ways to share, pace, gesture, and walk-and-talk while recording the fluid, process of “Hi-Body” on Spotify.
It’s a podcast structure meant to express ND MindBodies.
It’s on the go, it’s happy flappy hands!
It’s me pacing in my home, thinking through and into ideas to share and give back to the culture and rhythm of ND lifestyles.
It’s resetting how I thought about what it meant to make a podcast. And to do so in a way, I could fully see myself.
STUDIO PROMPT:
What is something you want to try, but the format of production and learning has barriers to your success?”
How can you embody your own learning style and access needs by resetting how you believe something should or can be done and fully show up as your ND self?”
📩 WORK
Year: 2022
Title: Hi, Body! Podcast with Taryn Goodwin
September 30 2022
70 / 70 SCALE YOUR JOY. (2022)
When was the last time you made from your enthusiastic joy?
For the sake of joy. Play. Wonderment?!
What is the last moment, you can remember that you let yourself follow that tiny spark of awe to see where else it went and could take you?
That you gave up control.
And you scaled your joy.
STUDIO PROMPT:
What would happen if you started small, on a big idea?”
What is the smallest step you can possibly take towards that goal today?
Cut that idea in half, and in half again – start there.
How would you break down the idea of bigger is better, and give yourself permission to play with less is more?”
📩 WORK
Year: 2022
Title: Tiny Paintings
Sold: For Sale
Thank you for being with me across my Hammock Residency Journey.
For stimming, shaking, rocking, talking, and being embodied!
For being curious, and reading the prompts for journaling where it felt right, and when it also felt hard.
This work, takes dedication and commitment to yourself.
Thank you for making that a part of your day.
To continue this journey through an audio-based practice, and get the conversation via Podcast tuned for a new series called: “Hammock Residency” through the Hi, Body! Podcast.
The link to all Hi, Body! episodes will be posted in the LinkTree once available.
Until then!
Yours in slow-full organizing,
Taryn Goodwin
@taryn.goodwin_ca
