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SEAMSIDE: Exploring the Inner Work of Textiles

SEAMSIDE: Exploring the Inner Work of Textiles

Written by: ZAK FOSTER
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SEAMSIDE host Zak Foster explores the inner work of textiles with various textile artists. In each episode, we seek to understand how working with fabric helps make us more human.

Art Spirituality
Episodes
  • SOLITUDE-COMMUNITY RHYTHM
    Jan 16 2026

    Creative work requires two movements: going inward into solitude and reaching outward into community. Neither is better than the other—what matters is learning to sense which one you need in the moment. This meditation helps you feel the gifts each offers, recognize the signals that you need more of solitude or connection, and trust your own rhythm.

    REFLECTION QUESTIONS → What signs tell you when to seek solitude? When to seek community?

    AFFIRMATION → Community and solitude / Both are sacred movements

    WANT TO LEARN MORE? → Join us live for the full WONDER YEAR program in 2026 for a communal journey with monthly reflections, live gatherings, workshops, and ongoing support to help you build a sustainable, deeply personal creative practice. We’d love to have you <3

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    23 mins
  • WITNESS YOUR WORK
    Jan 9 2026

    What does it mean to document our work in witnessing mode rather than performative mode? This meditation helps you practice being a witness of your own process—noticing your choices, responses to difficulty, and surprises without immediate judgment. When you document from genuine witnessing, you create records that serve your learning and, when shared, have a greater chance of helping other makers because the messy reality of making resonates deeply.

    REFLECTION QUESTIONS → What's the difference for you between judging your process and witnessing it?

    AFFIRMATION → I see my work with kind eyes / What I notice becomes wisdom

    WANT TO LEARN MORE? → Join us live for the full WONDER YEAR program in 2026 for a communal journey with monthly reflections, live gatherings, workshops, and ongoing support to help you build a sustainable, deeply personal creative practice. We’d love to have you <3

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    19 mins
  • HOLDING QUESTIONS
    Jan 2 2026

    Some questions close quickly—you answer them and move on. But other questions open outward, revealing more complexity and interest the longer you explore them. This meditation helps you identify questions worthy of sustained inquiry and practice holding them open rather than rushing to resolution. Series work isn't repetition; it's sustained investigation that builds intimacy with what genuinely matters to you.

    REFLECTION QUESTIONS → How does "holding a question open" rather than "answering a question" feel to you?

    AFFIRMATION → I return to the same question / Each time from a new height

    WANT TO LEARN MORE? → Join us live for the full WONDER YEAR program in 2026 for a communal journey with monthly reflections, live gatherings, workshops, and ongoing support to help you build a sustainable, deeply personal creative practice. We’d love to have you <3

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    21 mins
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