KyRa Kristof

Imaginal Studio

Kyra Kristof works at the confluence of art and social change, and is a founder of the reality rearchitecture firm, Imaginal Studio. Words presently on the front of my tongue include: kinship, belonging, racination. Questions that sing me awake include: How can I reweave my sensing self into the macrobiome of the place I inhabit? What conversations unfold with landscapes when we're in kinship relationship with the more than human world? How can animism in a kinship paradigm be legible in modern food systems? How can art and play offer our nervous systems a pathway into the unknown and unknowable? I am engaging issues of land stewardship through a doorway of cuisine, inviting deeper relationship with the beings whose bodies become our bodies, and curiosity as a guide to nourishment, medicine and beauty in this time of rapid and unpredictable change.