An art residency, I’ve come to realise, is the Eat, Pray, Love experience for an artist, a chance to step away, surrender to slowness, and rediscover joy in the act of making. In the film, Elizabeth Gilbert leaves behind her familiar life to eat, pray, and love her way through Italy, India, and Bali, not just for pleasure, but to search for answers and to reinvent herself. That is what I find myself craving from another residency. I want to make a pivot in my practice, but I