The Clear Lens Episode 8: Reconnecting to the land through colour and Textiles

Malú Colorín's work connects people to the land through colour.

As a natural dyer, she uses plants and nature to transfer colour.

In doing so, she uses colour as a catalyst to remember her connection to the land.

She helps others to do the same through her workshops. She's building networks across Ireland to revive and rejuvenate a textile system based on local fibre, local dyes and local labour.

If you listened to my chat with Dr Rupa Marya and her food-as-medicine pilot project in Ireland, you'll recognise a recurring theme of remembering the value of local production and how they are built on the principle of care and not exploitation.

It's profoundly beautiful that Malú, a Mexican woman, and Rupa, an America woman of Indian lineage, are helping Irish people to shake off the scars of colonialism and remember our connection to - and trust in - the land.

I see both women as healers, helping Ireland to heal from the wounds of colonialism by building new and better systems built on care.