What can we learn from sex, death, and folklore that could help us navigate modern life?
These are exactly the kind of dauntingly weird and uncomfortable topics that pushed me to create the Bone + Branch project. To pick up the tools left for us by our ancestors, to think critically about modern lifeways, to look askance at what seems inevitable.
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Who’s creating Bone + Branch?
I’m Allie McConnell (she/her), a New English creative with a background in apparel and product design, marketing, as well as human rights and social service. My ancestors are English, Scots-Irish, and Dutch. I currently live and work in Quinnehktuqkut/Connecticut on land that is the unceded territory of the Podunk.
Why Bone + Branch?
Frankly, because I am a pseudo-witchy-nerd and I’m on a kick of absorbing, digging into, listening to myths, folktales, indigenous ways of knowing, and all manner of traditional knowledge. We’re all familiar with the ills of modern life, and I’ve come to believe that much of it has to do with our un-connection with both the lands we currently live and work in, as well as the lands of our ancestors.
