Six Questions for Rachel Garrard
Tique Magazine
March 2022
Questioning why art is an important social medium during this time of environmental crisis, I have come to believe that art is powerful because it has the ability to communicate with our unconscious and create a change in consciousness. It is my belief that the external state of the world is a reflection of our internal state. Our culture of individualism and materialism separates us from both each other and from the natural world. Awakening the mind to a vaster perspective, one in which all life viewed as sacred and intimately connected, can change our orientation and actions in the external world.