About

Human-Land Kinships

The Collective Canvas is a global storytelling expedition exploring how our relationships with the planet affect our mutual flourishing. Following a 60,000 kilometer art-transect across 5 continents, the project will paint stories across cultures, landscapes, and ways of knowing, drawing a narrative of connection and shared “Planetarity.” Using a transdisciplinary blend of art, writing, and ecology, the project seeks to illuminate relationality through lived experiences and place-based knowledge.

Slow-Storytelling through Art and Human-Paced Movement

Both walking and art allow for a slow and intimate exploration, a relationship between the storyteller and story-sharer, and the documentation of places only accessible on foot. In the face of global change, narratives of relationality emphasize how connection to the planet is key to human flourishing.

Mission

To inspire global awareness and dialogue about humanity’s relationship with the planet by amplifying diverse cultural and relational perspectives that support mutual flourishing across communities and ecosystems. The Collective Canvas advances its mission through ethnoecological storytelling that integrates long-distance walking, art, and ecological inquiry to amplify local voices and illuminate relational connections between people and place.

About the Artist

Hi, I’m Ramona, a self-taught artist whose practice centers on watercolor and acrylic landscape painting as a form of ethnoecological storytelling, exploring relationships between people and the more-than-human world.

I’m an ecologist by training, with a Master’s in Environmental Science (2025) as well as professional experience in conservation and natural resource management. My artistic practice weaves this knowledge with lived experience from long-distance backpacking to create a cross-disciplinary method of place-based storytelling, making visible unseen interconnections, biological processes, and relational dynamics within landscapes. I am also a writer and poet, and integrate my visual art into written mediums, exploring story perspectives through a transdisciplinary lens.

I’ve published a visual narrative book that combines watercolor and poetry (Wandering in Connection, 2025), held a solo exhibition and outdoor art gallery (Memories of a Forest, 2025), and was an Artist-in-residence at Casas de la Selva, PR in January 2026. My work has been featured in Tidsskriftet Replikk Independent Journal (2025), Samviten Studentmagasin for Det samfunnsvitenskapelige fakultet (2025), and a Community Well-being Framework from Indigenous First Nations Perspectives (2024).