Animated Environmental Rituals explores animation as a way of gathering people, places, and materials into shared acts of attention. Here, “ritual” means small, repeatable gestures—drawing, sequencing, quiet projection, communal viewing—held in containers that fit the site (a field, a studio, a yurt). The emphasis is process over product, consent over extraction, and ecological sufficiency: working with what’s at hand—reused cloth, local pigments, paper, low-power projection—so authorship stays shared and participation remains open. 

Projects include Light of the Heart’s Home — “Зурхний гэр”эл, an immersive installation inside a Mongolian ger/yurt co-created with local children and artists; pigment and papermaking studies from the Quinta das Relvas residency in Portugal; and En Plein Air workshops that move animation outdoors so wind, light and footfall shape timing and image. Cross-city collaboration arrives through Ani-Codex, where short animated cycles live on public walls via AR. Collective and intimate film gestures sit alongside these: Kinder than Cuts, a protest exquisite-corpse made from 5–15 second contributions; Heart’s Rooted Dove, a travelling notebook “letter-film”; In the Garden: Giggles in the Greenery, composed entirely from scanned book images; Unravel, blending textiles, animation and AR in Nepal; and The Hands (in development), made with the John Smedley archive and workers. 

Across these pieces, animation becomes a ritual of making together—low-impact, context-aware, and hospitable—so stories can be held with care and carried by the communities that shape them.