Easter Artist Hunt 2026Author’s Note: For the 2026 Easter Conference Economics As If Life Matters I organised a special edition of the Artist Hunt entitled The Stories that Took Root. It is a perfect example of what we at the Theatre of the 7 Directions call eco-theatre.

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(The performer enters slowly, carrying a large glass vessel of clear water. Several smaller bowls are arranged around them. Inside each: stones, green shoots, or small pieces of floating vegetation.)

I live where city and river meet, between concrete walls and open sky. My work begins in still water, in those forgotten corners where nothing stirs. I listen there. I see what wants to return.

Slowly, I begin to weave life back in. A strand of roots, a floating island, a shelter for fish and dragonflies. I design systems that can breathe, repair, and multiply, not with haste, but with patience. I work with cities, architects, and communities to bring life back to the waters that flow through our streets and under our bridges.

I am Biomatrix Water, and I exist to remind our cities that they are meant to flow with life.

I am part engineer, part gardener, part dreamer.

My projects bring biodiversity, beauty, and ecological function back into the built environment, creating places where nature and urban life can coexist and flourish.

(Transfers water between two glasses, watching the ripples.)

Every ripple is a possibility. Every droplet remembers the ocean. I bring the memory of abundance back to the city, through floating gardens that filter, shimmer, and sing with insects again.

Abundance for me is resilience that flows on its own. It’s the murky water becoming clear, the bird returning to nest, the child leaning over to watch tadpoles. Abundance is what happens when we get out of nature’s way and let her brilliance unfold. I design the conditions where that abundance can return, so cities are not places of ecological loss but places where life regenerates and grows.

(Gently begins linking the bowls with ribbons or thin tubes, guiding the audience’s gaze between them.)

See how one vessel flows into another? So does my work. So does life. Each gesture of care ripples outward, until even the most neglected waters start to shine. Will you keep that flow moving with your attention, your choices, your care? Each action matters. Keep the current moving with me. For every drop we restore, the whole world breathes a little easier.

Biomatrix photo Lucca Richardsone(Performer holds up a small jug.) In this water lives the memory of rivers, of rain, of all that flows through us and between us. I’d like to ask each of you, silently, if you wish, to think of one thing you would like to see flow again: a quality, a hope, a change for our world. Maybe it’s kindness. Maybe it’s balance. Maybe it’s the courage to listen to nature’s pace. (Approaches the first audience member or a few representatives.)

Will you pour a drop of water into this bowl? One at a time, just a thread of movement. (Hands the small jug gently to them. The first person pours a small amount into the shared bowl, then passes the jug to the next person, and so on.)

Each drop carries intention. Each gesture restores connection.

Watch how your one drop joins the others, how together they shimmer, merge, become something living again.

This is how abundance begins, with many small streams finding each other.

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Actor: Ben Eeddle

Photographer: Lucca Richardson