Artist of the Enlivened, Mused by the Seasons of Time

Rachelle is an artist and practitioner whose work explores the transformative nature of consumption. With a practice rooted in the elemental and relational, she works across mediums—clay, landscape, food, beverage, and ceremonial design—to explore how we come to know ourselves and the world through what we take in, touch, and tend. Her process invites others into intimate encounters with matter and meaning, offering new ways of experiencing connection through sensory engagement.

Informed by her equestrian background, apitherapy-adjacent techniques and the healing intelligence of the land, Rachelle’s approach draws from ancestral practices, ritual, and everyday acts of nourishment. She crafts immersive experiences—whether through sculpture, shared meals, or sacred spaces—that ask participants to remember themselves 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 conversation between body and world. Through site-specific installations, 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, fermentation, fire, or clay, Rachelle’s practice honors the alchemical, the ephemeral, and the embodied. Her offerings serve as maps toward deeper presence and participation in the living field of experience—where nourishment becomes a language of devotion, and consumption becomes a practice of belonging.

Enlivened Key Podcast

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.

The Enlivened Arts focus on consumption.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.