DAY FIVE | SATURDAY 26 FEBRUARY 2022 | SOFT-TIME

Reclaiming Sovereignty with Creator Nicole
Unraveling Thoughts & Labors When Leaving Social Media
Mother Mother opens up about leaving social media 4 years ago and traces the generative evolution that led to the birth of the Fertility Abundance Garden. Creator Nicole shares considerations and perspectives from her navigations of social media that bring more light and exploration to larger movements and reclamations of our sovereignty, our brilliance, and our power.

Meet Creator nicole

Nicole Maileen Woo
artist, dancer, dreamer, healer, hearthkeeper
I am One with my Creations and my Creator. I am practicing becoming the next best version of myself and I am thankful to be witnessed along the way. I am in reclamation mode - I am reclaiming my self-esteem, my voice, my dignity, my rights, my freedom and my creative practices are the tools of my trade.

Listen + download a sweet mix that DJ Mother Mother Be created a year ago in the Winter 2021 Garden.

Prelude | Easy Breezy Love Notes | a sound study

On this “last” day of our inaugural Tech Dreams Week, we celebrate the birth of the Tech Dreams Portal with this soft, sensual, sonic escapade into luscious rhythms by beautiful women around the world. You are invited to groove and find your joyous flow. This is yet another beginning. What is on your horizon of creation?

Soundtrack | Mahmundi & Adriana Colconhotta Cariocas | Yazmin Lacey 90 Degrees | Meshell Ndegeocello Good Intentions | Sade, Cottonbelly By Your Side (Sade Remix) | Céu Sonâmbulo | Somi If The Rains Come First | Susana Baca Golpe E’ Tierra | Zap Mama Gati | Mayra Andrade Tchápu na Bandera (Live) | Rimas e Melodias, Tassia Reis, Drik Barbosa, Tatiana, Karol de Souza, Stefanie, Alt Niss & Mayra Maldjian Rimas & Melodias | Mayra Andrade A-mi N Kre-u Txeu | Download

Watch the first part of chapter 1..

Chapter 1, part a: How did we get here?

  • Introduction to the Reclaiming Sovereignty series

  • Nicole shares why she’s excited to be a part of this discovery

  • Possible shifts in Nicole’s social media “sabbatical” practice

  • Mother Mother’s two-part story of her journey to leave Facebook 4 years ago, and Instagram after that

Watch the second part of chapter 1..

Chapter 1, part b: A space to be seen

  • Tracing the origins of the Garden with Mother Mother as she found the “audience of 1”

  • Cultivating offline sanctuaries and the revelation that Mother Mother didn’t in fact ever have “writer’s block”

  • An understanding of autonomy over content being central to the creation design of the Garden

  • Nicole’s definition of social media being “a space to be seen and witnessed”

  • An idea that the Garden is Mother Mother’s “transformed” social media space

Watch the third part of chapter 1..

Chapter 1, part C: Source of light

  • Posting on social media as adding “light” and positivity to the world

  • Navigating the back-and-forth conversations of whether to stay on social media or to go

  • Mattering and investigating feelings of connection

  • Nicole’s arrival to asking what else is possible if she does leave social media

  • Nicole’s two experiences of trust being violated on social media

Watch the fourth part of chapter 1..

chapter 1, part d: Threading innovation

  • Unique benefits of social media for visual artists

  • How social media helps “hermits” stay connected to what’s happening in the world

  • Appreciating all sides of the middle ground

  • Nicole dreaming into the possibilities of an online community for visual artists