Materials Library
The Shifting States Materials Library explores materials and their inherent meanings, offering a way to think about material as more than just a medium. By engaging with materials intuitively, creative practice can support you through periods of change, uncertainty, and transition. This library is designed to help you work with material meaning as a grounding, reflective tool as you navigate life’s more difficult moments.
Material Type
Symbolic Meanings
- absence
- alchemy
- amplification
- Ancestry
- boundaries
- care
- clarity
- comfort
- connection
- depth
- emotional support
- endurance
- flexibility
- flow
- grief
- grounding
- growth
- healing
- identity
- impermanence
- intention
- journey
- legacy
- love
- memory
- patience
- place
- presence
- preservation
- protection
- purity
- release
- renewal
- residue
- resilience
- ritual
- self discovery
- shadow
- softening
- stability
- strength
- survival
- thresholds
- time
- transformation
- transition
- truth
- warmth
Rope / Twine
Tying things together with intention.
Willow
Soft strength through sorrow.