When I volunteered with Valley Camp, an outdoor education NGO in the Sacred Valley, I lived in a small rural village called Urquillos. There, I taught natural sciences through art in the local primary school, and lived a different kind of life from the lifestyle we have in the UK.

Life is slow when you live on a farm in the countryside. You feel more connected to the things that are important for us as Homo sapiens, yet things we tend to rush past and not see in modern society. You see where your food comes from and where your waste goes. Compost.

All the children in that school knew the right kind of soil to collect for making pots to plant sunflowers in. “Tierra negra”, “black earth”.

Fine liner pen with watercolour.