artist of the enlivened, moved by seasonal waters
About Rachelle
Rachelle is an interdisciplinary practitioner whose work integrates land-based learning and beverage production experience with continuing education in embodied arts, plant studies, and ritual. Through project-based work, she explores how sensory and material practices shape knowledge, care, and relationship to place.
Informed by her equestrian background, apitherapy-adjacent techniques and the healing intelligence of the land, Rachelle’s approach draws from nature-celestial-based practices, rituals of the north, and everyday acts of nourishment. She crafts immersive experiences—whether through hand building, client sessions, shared meals, or sacred spaces—that offer a broader remembrance of the self as part of a wider web of reciprocity.
Based in the Hudson Valley of New York, her work is animated by the belief that consumption is not merely ingestion, but a constant conversation circuit between body and world. Through site-specific gardens, workshops, and reflective offerings, she guides others to explore the textures of relationship—between self and soil, breath and brew, vessel and void.
Whether working with honey, water, fire, or clay, Rachelle’s practice honors the patient alchemist, the ephemeral, and the embodiment of time. Her offerings serve as maps that form strands of presence and participation in the living field of experience—where nourishment becomes a language of devotion, and consumption becomes a practice of belonging.
The Enlivened Key
A collection stream of vocalized and written notes in devotion to consumption. Sharing research and lived experiences in connection to alcohol, nature kinship with layers of story and archaeological evidence to help form pathways of relating.
A Bear’s Belly
Belly around the tables of creation through the merriment of imbibing, writing, creating art and story in the ways we consume, and share through the natural worlds of material and spirit.
The Enlivened Arts focus on consumption.
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From the ancient rituals of Libation, Unity and The Bragr Cup to the rekindling of modern Wassailing Traditions, alcohol has been a companion of human’s in life and death.
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The practice of honoring, preparing and feeding the seasons in cyclic patterning comes alive in calendar traditions and our mythic stories. Gathering twice per year at the balancing of the seasonal shifts, we listen, observe, and provide in-sight to what seeds and nourishes both the dark and light half of the zodiacal year.
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The key to consuming is the awe.
The Enlivened Key is what allows for locked doors to open, circles to join and bridges to form. However, the magic in the key is deceptively simple. The key is us, humanity and all that comes with that. So the question for the key is how might I live well, experience all that I came here to carry out so that I may find my way to dying well? Becoming an ancestor of the Earth.