The art practices we are developing in Motif Art Studio mark a transition in our views and understanding of the role of art in our lives and the world we live in today. Motif Art Studio was built as a response to an environmental disaster in 2015, huge floods hit the Sahrawi refugee camps and destroyed the hand-built mud homes and the tents. Over the next year, we started making (and breaking). Of all the things one might think we needed to live in a refugee camp, we wanted to build an art studio! A place of creating, experimenting and exchanging. We wanted to create a space for our creativity as much as we needed a place where to be. Now we want to engage with the living processes that create life and celebrate life. So we create gardens, exchange seeds and celebrate food.