Imagine an entire school – students, teachers, and administrators – taking time each morning to turn inward together, and listen to a brief mindfulness prompt and world-class music.
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'Rooted' is a dream-like experimental short film created by Elke Hounshell and Ash Carroll. This short film explores how nature is a healing practice to the bodies, and how many connections we have to nature without even realizing it. It captures how the human body connects with nature, the river, roots, emotions, and everything else. Nature makes Elke and Ash feel more connected to themselves. With this film, they are hoping to raise awareness to nature and how we need to take care of it for it to take care of us. “We need to take care of the earth and the river more because it's a very good tool for grounding ourselves and our minds and bodies,” says Elke on the effect she hopes this film will have. The film is shot at multiple locations and has a voiceover of poems written by August Brown, fellow apprentice. This film explores similarities in the patterns of the human body and the patterns in nature through a surrealist lens.
Elke Hounshell enjoys spending time in nature, watching cartoons, listening to the Beatles and making comics. Elke worked with both ArtWorks and The Well last year as an apprentice working on the True Body ‘Sona and Soma’ project. Some of their favorite art mediums to work in are fine line inking pens, alcohol markers, watercolor, painting with ink, photography and fashion.
Ash Carroll likes music, drawing, art, his cats, and playing Roblox. Ash has lived in Cincinnati his whole life and goes down by the river often. His favorite medium to work in is fine-line pen, marker, and paper. A fun fact about Ash is he can’t do a cartwheel.
Bryce Kessler, Andrea Sisson, MORTAR, Amelia Price, and Miles Riordan Gentry
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Our programs have been nourishing the community since 2005. In 2019, we became the non-profit, A Mindful Moment.
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