This movement and digital collage work imagines a speculative present where human and more-than-human life coexist in interconnected reciprocity. Influenced by biomimicry, anticolonial thought, and ecological embodiment, the work expresses a deep yearning for re-integration with the natural world. Through flocking, ripples, and sensory attunement, humans merge with their environment—connected and transformed. Movement becomes a tool for listening, re-learning, and repair. This is a vision of nourishment, of presence, of flocking and mending—not to escape collapse, but to emerge through it with grace.

This project was created through a residency with The Centre for Projection Art, led and curated by Yandell Walton. Mentored by Emile Zile, Audax Mrozik Gawler and Jen Valender. The work is part of the exhibition Intraconnection, a series of newly commissioned moving-image works developed for and presented on the iconic Fed Square Screen for Now or Never Festival Melbourne, the project explores multi-species entanglement in all its complexity. It will be presented as part of the curated screen at Bunjill Place and at Colllingwood Yards for Melbourne Fringe Festival.

The creative team that generously contributed to the world building of this project included - Melania Jack directing and editing , Patty Preece sound, Tara Jade Samaya movement director, Pippa Samaya director of photography, Micheal Smith and Damian Meredith dancers.

This work was produced on the lands of the Gimuy Walaburra and Yidinji peoples of Gimuy (Cairns) and the lands of the Bindal and Wulgurukaba peoples of Gurambilbarra (Townsville).

Space and support for the creative development was provided by Dancenorth, thanks to Amber Haines, Kyle Page, Hillary Coyne and the amazing Dance North team.