CREATIVE CARE AS PROCESS + PRACTICE
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CREATIVE CARE AS PROCESS + PRACTICE ꩜
creative care cult(ure)
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creative care cult(ure) 𖦹
Creative Care Cult(ure) is a living archive and practice space devoted to creativity as care work, art as process and art as a tool for resilience and communal transformation.
Rooted in slow-making, tending, and process-based art, this work centres analogue methods like collage, zines, poetry and storytelling to hold space for expression, experimentation, and presence. Creativity is not a privilege as it is a fundamental tool for the human spirit, and that care is a radical, ongoing act.
Hello, I’m Julia Joy
I’m a multi-disciplinary, process-based artist and community arts facilitator living and loving in Cape Town, South Africa.
My art practice is rooted in analogue expressions as a way to listen inward, make meaning, and hold space for what’s tender and unpolished. This is work I return to for myself first: a practice of radical self-care and discipline.
In community, I offer process-based programmes and workshops where participants can do the same. My art facilitation is focused on exploration, curiosity, joy and wonder. I create safe, trauma-informed spaces for small groups of vulnerable teenagers to express themselves, where their creative abilities are utilised to feel, process, and reimagine the worlds they live in.
My Core Creative Practices
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My zines are built from cut-up collage, text fragments, or original poetry. I create mini-zines to process, question, and voice what doesn’t get spoken out loud. Lo-fi on purpose, they resist perfection and celebrate what’s raw, personal, and political. For me, making zines is a way to think through my hands… to gather, disrupt, and reframe.
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My journaling practice is rooted in stream-of-consciousness writing — raw, unfiltered, and deeply present. Inspired by the idea of Morning Pages, but untethered from routine, I write when I’m moving through big emotions, confusion, or lingering in liminal space. It’s a private act of emotional mapping as a way to listen inward, trace thought patterns, and give shape to the unseen. Writing becomes a tool for release, reflection, and re-orientation.
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Collage is a method of interruption — of excavating image and meaning from the systems that produced them. I collect, dissect, and reconfigure what was never meant to speak back. In this practice, the object becomes subject. What is disposable becomes declarative. Through layering, cutting, and recontextualising, I reclaim narrative and rupture dominant visual culture.
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My facilitation work centers on art as a tool for healing, expression, and resistance. I create spaces where people — especially girls, youth, and marginalized communities — can access their creativity without fear or pressure to perform. Rooted in process over product, my sessions prioritize storytelling, emotional exploration, and personal agency through accessible materials and intuitive making. Art becomes a language for what can't always be said. This is not about teaching art, but about holding space for people to remember that they are already artists — already whole, already powerful.