about the maker.
Howdy, I’m Corinne Denomme, owner & maker behind White Pine Rising. The inspiration for my work comes from a call to stimulate ecological conversation around creativity, reciprocity, and celebration that honors the link between the ancient ways of healing in a modern world. My focus along this journey lay with learning how to tend to our land and our social landscapes while finding efficient ways to create a conjunction that supports a thriving relationship for both. I also like to operate with and within four main elements: creative expression despite ephemeral result, inviting beauty in as a balm to the spirit, the art of resting, and the act of joyful play which irreplaceably brings forth a curiosity for learning.
My predominant creative offerings are through herbal medicine and naturally dyed garments.. The ways I have come to hold the knowledge for these crafts is forever expanding: Being raised with herbalism, experimenting and experiencing, deep diving into self-led studies, soaking up community classes and courses, learning through story telling, sitting in a pine tree, asking questions, connecting in community projects, observing my elders and inquiring the youth….
I believe that while paid-for credentials can be very useful and important, they are only but one piece to the wholistic understanding of any topic. I am continuously learning and perhaps most importantly, I don’t claim to know anything I don’t know.
Relatable credentials: Nature & village connection programs with Jon Young’s 8 Shields Institute, traditional natural dye practices with Mel Streetman of Mamie's Schoolhouse, Lindera energetic Western folk herbalism course with Michigan herbalist Jim McDonald (2x), and various other classes with beloved community members/teachers who have truly inspired my educational path forward.
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about the craft.
Co-creating with the earth offers an infinite range of possibilities, and these possibilities come with great responsibility and respect. It is a relationship like any other and thus requires boundaries for good nurturing and preservation. With this dance I am always learning new steps: How to give and receive in fairness, how to be in partnership with the ecosystem, how to ethically exist together that doesn’t promote exploitation for Earth’s inhabitants, how to nurture and be nurtured...
Earth exemplifies in gifting, reclaiming, the ephemeral, cycling, and mutual aid, and this is how I model my life’s philosophy and my artistic expressions.
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