About

Rachelle is an interdisciplinary artist, practitioner, and researcher with a background in nutritional and sensory sciences and a professional history in alcohol and artisanal food procurement, education, and product development. Her full-time practice centers on what she terms The Enlivened Arts—a multidisciplinary framework that draws on sensory studies, ecological humanities and myth-informed inquiry to explore embodied connection, perception, and transformation. Her work engages alcohol and other threshold substances as ecological and relational modalities, alongside practices in apitherapy/animal husbandry, ethnobotany, holistic wellness, ancestral ritual practices, poetry, and clay sculpture with alternative firing techniques. Through land stewardship, gardening, and place-based seasonal practice, she investigates how both humans and more-than-human systems exchange knowledge, heal, and adapt. Her projects include Tannery Gardens, Aster Threads, The Enlivened Key and A Bear’s Belly. These four inquiries link the influences of the invisible strands of connection between the stars, one’s local ecology, the human body, and ancestral memory—paths of being that have longing in relating.