In an attempt to visualise and communicate with students at BAS the mechanics of creatIve practice  – as the transformative process of engaging with and acting in the world – and the role of writing as a tool within this, I sketched a diagram inspired by the process through which "ice eggs" are formed naturally. ( https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/07/couple-rare-ice-eggs-finnish-beach )

Each egg – like each project(ion), singular but part of a universal ecosystem – starts with a speck – a personal intuition or impulse, emanating from the collective unconscious – and grows through a continuous back-and-forth motion between sea and land, between getting soaked and solidifying. Drawing an analogy between the sea as the vast liquid field of episteme and the land as the territory of techne, I propose that writing – critically and creatively conceived – is the spine joining the two domains, where insights emerge that propel the evolving body of artistic research onward. In the present age of rapidly rising sea levels, the intertidal zone – the thick horizon between sea and land – embodies most profoundly the climate crisis as a local condition, inseparable from the global, and embedded in the universal. This zone is both a locus of visible calamity, but also and consequently the potential birthplace of new beginnings. Under these terms, this contribution aims to present some thoughts on and incite a conversation about how writing can be re-conceived as part of artistic research processes in ways that reflect and project the current.