What are you healing? An inquiry from Boa’s Repair Shop
As we turn the page on 2020 and step into 2021, I am thrilled to announce that I have received support from the Culture Push Fellowship for Utopian Practice to realize my project Boa’s Repair Shop.
Boa’s Repair Shop is a platform for repair of physical objects and metaphysical states of being. We facilitate repairing as an act of love and connection for people of all backgrounds.
Breaking is a normal part of embodied life and physical existence. It happens to everything from marriages to plates to self-worth. It sometimes marks the end of life in one particular form. Other times, it catalyzes repair or reinvention.
Boa’s Repair Shop is a platform for social self-research, awareness practice and the experience of co-creation of self / community / world. My hypothesis is that our perception can be awakened to new ways of being by combining the repair of physical objects, ideas and states of being.
Here’s where you come in: like all socially engaged projects, Boa’s Repair Shop will only be realized in collaboration with participants. 2020 was a year when all the fractures in our community were revealed. Many experienced loss and grief. Some had the opportunity to use quietness and isolation to tap into deep healing and formulate daily habits to support remembrance of self-energy. Some may have experienced a combination of the above, and much else on the spectrum of human perception.
What are you now healing? What is in need of repair? I want to hear from you. Here are some examples from my life right now:
I have several pairs of good socks with holes in the heels.
I believe that I can trust my body and its cycles and would like to practice this trust.
Someone keeps popping my bike tires. I get to modify the way I store objects associated with me in the public space of the New York City street. At the same time, the damage to my bike tires has catalyzed visits to the bike repair shop in my new neighborhood, Two Bridges. The insights I received there made me feel seen, cared for, and part of a local community that has its own customs and codes of behavior.
Is there anything in your life that could use a zhush, some extra attention, a complete transformation? Let me know by responding to this email. Your input will be the fuel for activating Boa’s Repair Shop. Thank you for your willingness.
Love,
Alex