More-Than-Human Empathy in Arts-Based Material Research Processes

This research paper is related to discussions around the human-environment relationship. It opens the discussion around the roles of humans and nature, or natural materials, as an author in an arts-based process. It attempts to ask questions about the role of the creative process in creating a more equal relationship and empathy building between these roles. Severe global environmental changes suggest that Earth may have entered a new human-dominated geological epoch called the Anthropocene.