Earthen Vision

Earthen Vision Accompanied coaching journeys for professional development & strategic decision-making, designed for for creative, eco-conscious leaders and innovators.

Strategic sessions available online and in-person on the Sunshine Coast and Vancouver Island, British Columbia, for organizations and professionals using creative, land-based approaches.

- Sarah West, MPA, BA(Hons), DKATI
Consultant & Environmental Arts Therapist

May all of your thrifted, hand woven textile dreams come true.Eri / peace silk (read: silkworms not boiled in their own ...
08/22/2026

May all of your thrifted, hand woven textile dreams come true.

Eri / peace silk (read: silkworms not boiled in their own cocoons), handwoven in the cottage industry (read: someone’s home) in India. 50 years ago.

Well hallo, snake skin hat band! I found a beautiful blue, gold and black banded garter snake, sadly hit by a car and a...
08/17/2026

Well hallo, snake skin hat band! I found a beautiful blue, gold and black banded garter snake, sadly hit by a car and at his life’s end. I first saw the giant turkey vulture waiting patiently overhead, which attuned me to the snake’s plight.

There was no way out of his misery, and I had to end his life. These things, always, feel awful.

I’ve worked with snake imagery and myth and medicine for many many years.

The snake was the first being tattooed on my body.

I respect their role as medicine keepers, and the shedding of skins… dearly.

So to be able to work with one, in this way, that was just the perfect size to wrap around my forehead…. Feels particularly special.

***process: I skinned him, with a single slice down his belly. Long dead, he jumped, and my scream reverberated round the property. I alum tanned him, so he’s flexible but not strong. I used leather glue to bolster him with deer buckskin.

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Gosh these lands and waters I grew up alongside are knock your socks off beautiful.
08/08/2026

Gosh these lands and waters I grew up alongside are knock your socks off beautiful.

08/06/2026

We don’t need to exclusively rely on psychedelics to reach a state of expanded, connected and mind altering consciousness.

We can get there through a deeply attuned, sustained creative practice.

Here, we can reach deep flow, our inner reaches and connection with the Holy.

Thoughts from an art therapist on consciousness altering creative practice, after years witnessing the singular focus on engaging in psychedelics to connect and attune.

08/04/2026

Playing the bones.

This weekend, I saw a percussionist of a Mexican band bring out a giant jawbone in the thick of a concert and started PLAYING it.

I nearly lost it.

The sound of the rattling molars and wooden stick scraped across jagged teeth was…. Thrilling. Ancient. Familiar.

Found him afterwards, and asked if it was a horse jaw. It was! And he showed me the basic technique. He also asked if I’d ever seen rib bones played in the hand, a loose clacking together, like spoons. Apparently they did this in Ireland, so now, I’m on the lookout.

The large proportions of the horse jaw brings out the rattling sounds much more pronounced than my beautiful bear, but worth a delightful try.

Still working at finding my inner percussionist 💚

07/24/2026

The start of another intention filled spirit filled prayer filled drum, softening in my favourite waters, the ones I’ve known the longest.

Harkening back to this winter, when I made the Purse of the Deer for a dear friend who is stepping powerfully into her c...
07/15/2026

Harkening back to this winter, when I made the Purse of the Deer for a dear friend who is stepping powerfully into her calling as one of their stewards.

Every bit of it, from hide to bone to sinew, made from deer. The bulk of which, I’d brain tanned, the soft buckskin strap I’d purchased years ago. Sewn with sinew I harvested, dried, pounded and made cordage from.

Vertebra and rib bone picked out of the mush of bone broth from a locally harvested deer.

To deeply come to know an animal, is to create with your hands with them.

They form your muscle memory and fill your lungs with their scent and walk through your dreams.

We are all made up of the same stuff, our deer kin and us.

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