Here we go, I suppose.

A new corner of the internet for my ramblings about nature, swimming, traditional craft-skills and being neurodivergent.

I have long thought about sharing more of my writing, maybe it was the intimacy that was off putting, maybe it was knowing friends and family would gain more of an insight to my life than I share with them in person. A million reasons not to and my brain was awfully good at finding more, I have to credit my thought processes for being so rapid but generally it’s more of a hinderance than beneficial.

Putting words on a page has always felt far more comfortable than verbalising my thoughts and feeling out loud. As a kid I had always been writing short stories about talking animals and various adventures, these little ideas would find their way to paper quickly, with no brisk trails of overthinking to dull them.

Alas, here I am. A half fledged adult at twenty two putting words on a page with no real intention of what might happen to them. So maybe it’s worth introducing myself; My name is Anya, I live in north Cornwall in an old VW LT35 horse box that I converted with my partner Jimmy, joined by our collie Nellie. I dabble in all sorts of creative things, primarily drawing, woodwork, photography and textiles. I work part time for Finisterre as part of their social media team alongside many freelance ventures.

I live to be outdoors, I moved to Cornwall three years ago to study by the sea and now can’t imagine living more than a fifteen minute drive from the coast. I care deeply about encouraging others to reconnect to nature and our natural landscape, be it through traditional craft skills or simply bare feet on the earth. I am on my own journey of exploring indigenous knowledge of plants and place, unraveling the inbuilt colonised perspective of this earth (trust me, entire tangents on this subject are in the works).

Writing over the last three years has consisted of various essays for my degree in photography, including the misrepresentation of Indigenous groups through a study of Ethnographic photography and the work of Edward Curtis. It’s been an eye opening journey.

As a creative with both ADHD and ASD my mind is hectic, to say the least. I haven’t felt entirely comfortable talking about this at length on social media and discussions on this will come in-depth in due course, but it’s also a large factor of why I wanted to start writing here. It will maybe take some time to move out of writing short, concise instagram captions and into longer ramblings, allowing myself time to breathe and explore subjects I love in more depth.

There is so much I am looking forward to diving into on this platform, and I hope you join for the ride. Who knows how consistent it will be, maybe weekly is a good place to start? You can subscribe below to be notified when I do post my ramblings on here.

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