design | tailoring | upcycling | ceremony
re: cycles
glow: the vitality of our interconnected oneness as peoples with the cosmos.
reglow’s intention is to bridge internal and external landscapes through deep listening and movement.
movement can range from subtle to amplified expressions. movement may simply be breathing and moving through life in the cosmos. reglow works with used and found textiles and multimedia to listen to and breathe life & form into being. this is influenced by present moment awareness of internal and external landscapes. internal landscapes may be visual, textured, colored, sonic, sensing, emotional, spiritual, ancestral, intuitive, dream based, and cognitive. external landscapes may be the lands we occupy, our personal and collective histories, the economic and social systems and contexts we find ourselves in, the sacred contexts we find ourselves in, and the more than human worlds. bridging internal and external landscapes cultivates awareness around the ways they’ve been violently separated and the ways they are already interconnected. awareness of interconnectivity is crucial for all of our liberation.
reglow is a practice of being
reglow is a temple of wheare
a temple of wheare (where / wear / we + are) is the landscape of relationships that makes up a body (a body of a: human, being, plant, rock, mountain, river, animal, land, star, planet,)
reglow cultivates relationship with perceptive vitality and materials through illumination of consciousness in energetic and spiritual oneness
through ritual, reglow practice enters space beyond individual consciousness and allows for the emergence of creative process through tending to materials (used garments and interiors, fabric scraps, found objects)
matter and mind as consciousness
(in oneness)
through the breath of embodied flow, the process of existence perpetually reweaves the fabric of experience
an individual reemerges through cycles of transformation
contextual listening
how do we receive information? how it is contextualized and recontextualized through presence and deepening somatic attention and awareness?
artist bio
marlena ray has been raised in occupied Coast Salish Territory, what the colonizers have called washington state. Their first major accomplishment was to bring about the pulsing sound of creativity through their devotion of making friendship bracelets as a child. ray is non-binary in their orientation towards existence - holding complexities of our interconnectivity. Ray comes from Irish, Mestizo, Swedish, and Dutch peoples.
Ray received an AA degree in apparel design from seattle central community college and studied womenswear fashion design at the london college of fashion. Since then ray has worked in the fashion industry in design, sewing, upcycling, teaching, volunteering, experimental performance and exhibition, and collective co-leading. marlena completed a BA degree at the evergreen state college in regenerative design in 2022 and is studying somatic body psychotherapy and clinical counseling at naropa university on occupied Hinono’eino’, Tsitsistas, Nuciu territories - where many more tribes have been present.
By integrating across fields of experience and relationships, marlena envisions economic systems design that simultaneously repair separation, integrate Indigenous ways of knowing, sovereignty of consciousness, and center wellness and emergent vitality.