I write to share a current nest and online platform for interwoven experiences, structured to give by way of subscription a tracing time through a sharing of rituals, prompts, symbols, and rhythms that open our relative nature to the depth of our seas; the human unconscious, the spirit in transformation, the others as light to befriend and bridge aspects of ourselves. With an interest in buoyant phenomena, flexible communication, and sacred nourishment, AV Axiology tends toward the melodic interlocution of a soma psychic realm to transverse tender voices toward being and resting whole.
Ali Van feels motility. To celebrate life works she sublimates. With pendular compass, gastronomic ancestry, epigenetic stars over silent geography, she settles to incubate cognitive time.
Anyone who has had the fortune to experience the healing energies and attention Ali Van brings to her work knows that the gift she offers comes from her immeasurable depth of compassion. Her understanding of what it means to embody states of being is wide and undividing, her interpretation of the symbolic conjuring is spacious and life-giving, and her perception of values is kind yet uncompromising. I have had the opportunities to process major shifts and challenges in life with Ali. Through speaking with her about the changes in directions with my work and my grief for family, I experienced the holistic ways of inquiring, challenging, and collaboratively reflecting through Ali's practice of values. She has helped me tremendously also by being the way she is; witnessing her as an example of how one maintains love is of a healing nature itself. In a world where one discerns to identify one's support system, browsing through options of therapists has often felt alienating, without knowing the values the interlocutor holds. I consider myself very lucky to have met Ali, how meeting her has coincided with shifts in my value systems, as well as with the refusal to see my mental well-being as an object of exchange, but as a relational boundary making process of knowing together.
- Artist, Filmmaker