Explore It 2 continues the first chapter of our daily nature project from Summer of 2020, but for Autumn of 2023. This project is a daily activity that participants engage in for 30 days.

Explore It encourages all participants to engage with nature in some way every day for 30 days. We then ask that each day be documented in some way. Participants can decide on any type of documentation or creative activity they would like for themselves! For example, you can walk outside for 15 minutes every day, no matter the weather, and photograph something on your walk. You can capture one sound recording from outside every day. You could challenge yourself to visit a new, local park everyday and dance outside, or visit the same park every day and photograph how it changes with the weather and time. Some other things we saw in the last Explore It include:

• paper cutouts used as a lens to photograph nature through everyday

• ink prints that were made from different plant life gathered from their backyard every day

• fifteen-second videos of nature paired with songs every day to reflect mood

• a large wooden hoop photographed in different outdoor settings every day

• mini earthworks (making sculpture out of objects found in your immediate surroundings) every day

• taking a polaroid of a natural setting and then photographing it in a still life

• painting a rock every day and creating a sculpture from them at the end of the 30-day project

People have used their own creativity and love for nature to make truly beautiful reflections on the benefits of nature for our overall health and well-being. In our “It” project archives, you can view some of the examples of how people interacted with nature for the original Explore It project.

Our community has grown so much since the first Explore It project, and we look forward to seeing what types of nature & creativity come from this 30-day project.