Art · Ecology · Story · Community
Living Lore
Creative
A multidisciplinary realm of creative expression from the mind of Mage, also known as William Brent Hanvey.
Enter the Living Lore Exploring the edges where creativity, culture, nature, and meaning meetAn unfolding creative world
Where imagination takes root
Rooted in imagination, ecology, and the living world, Living Lore Creative brings together visual art, writing, storytelling, communications, conservation, herbalism, and community engagement.
The work gathered here includes original creations, selected collaborations, experiments, and evolving projects. Each piece is an invitation to notice what is alive, what has been forgotten, and what might yet be imagined.
Paths through the work
Creative realms
Rather than a conventional list of services, these are living territories of practice. They overlap, cross-pollinate, and change with every project.
Visual Worlds
Art, photography, graphic design, zines, websites, presentations, and immersive visual storytelling.
Written Lore
Essays, reflections, field notes, poetry, communications, and stories that trace the relationship between people and place.
Living Practice
Herbalism, conservation, workshops, gatherings, and community collaborations shaped through care and reciprocity.
The ground beneath the work
A creative ecology
Living Lore treats creativity as a relationship rather than a product. Art can help us remember where we belong, carry knowledge between generations, and make new forms of community possible.
Attend to the living world
Begin with careful observation of land, bodies, seasons, stories, and the more-than-human world.
Honor inheritance
Meet traditions and ancestral knowledge with humility, context, and respect for the communities that carry them.
Create through relationship
Let collaboration, reciprocity, and genuine community needs shape the form a project takes.
Leave room for mystery
Not everything meaningful needs to be flattened into an answer. Some work is a threshold rather than a conclusion.
Selected works and collaborations
Fragments from the field
A visual gathering of creative studies, ecological communications, community projects, and experiments in form. Project pages can be connected here as the archive grows.
Writing and field notes
Language as a place to gather
Writing can be archive, spell, invitation, and witness. This space will hold essays, poems, reflections, project stories, and notes from the shifting edges of the work.
Essays and reflections
Long-form writing on ecology, creativity, culture, and belonging.
From the fieldProject stories
Behind-the-scenes notes from collaborations, gatherings, and creative campaigns.
Small signalsPoems and fragments
Shorter forms, images, questions, and observations gathered along the way.
The threshold remains open
Follow the work as it unfolds
Living Lore Creative is an evolving archive. New writing, images, collaborations, and experiments will continue to take root here.