Valerie Gillies

But if you have somebody who says, we will.

straight away, you're able to do it.

So I recommend collaboration to everybody.

The box, you open it and you're met with a photograph or you're met with a poem and...

They all get out of order, but it doesn't matter.

You can spread them out and look at them.

And it does have... Staff have commented on how people who are feeling quite distressed can go and sit with the box.

They're not talking to anybody else.

They're just leafing through what's in the box, and they look, and they're all images from nature, and the poems are deeply immersed in nature.

So...

After it, the person sits up and has a cup of tea.

Yes, I do.

I bring things like holy grass pooled in Orkney.

And people can smell it and can think about it.

how this was used through medieval times to scatter on the floor of chapels.

I've written poems to the holy grass about how healing it is.

It's a rare grass, so it's lovely for people to find some or take some leaves home.

And then sometimes we do mischievous things like saying, here is a blade of grass.

go out into the garden and find a matching one.

And about half an hour later, people are still looking.