<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Ellena Pointer]]></title><description><![CDATA[EP]]></description><link>https://www.ellenapointer.com/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2026 03:55:12 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.ellenapointer.com/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[SERENITY ON THE EDGE OF DESTRUCTION]]></title><description><![CDATA[Excerpt from 'Miyazaki: Between Shrine and Sea']]></description><link>https://www.ellenapointer.com/post/serenity-on-the-edge-of-destruction</link><guid isPermaLink="false">510e055d-60e1-43fe-ba64-28c1a8c24071</guid><pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 05:41:04 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/132d74_977b40c500f74d838a62e0d3e6fbffce~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Ellie Pointer</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[RECLAIMING SHADOWS]]></title><description><![CDATA[An essay examining shadow, fragmentation and the unconscious through Aldo Rossi’s San Cataldo Cemetery, using psychoanalysis and visual abstraction to explore how architecture carries memory.]]></description><link>https://www.ellenapointer.com/post/reclaiming-shadows</link><guid isPermaLink="false">fc3b9028-b4d1-45ca-841e-a5a640f06789</guid><pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 03:38:57 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/132d74_5a6fd29d04a04653895be118bd4401b4~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_779,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Ellie Pointer</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[BEYOND EXTRACTION]]></title><description><![CDATA[A critical essay on how ecofeminist principles might reshape architectural practice through care, collaboration, ecological stewardship and resistance to extractive systems.]]></description><link>https://www.ellenapointer.com/post/radical-practice</link><guid isPermaLink="false">8e253fc3-bbd4-405d-b3e3-d9434335548a</guid><pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2026 06:30:09 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/132d74_11980e019f334722b7a59d3c6f07e36c~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Ellie Pointer</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[A TOXIC LEGACY]]></title><description><![CDATA[A critical essay examining how care, domestication and colonial logics shape the environmental and political landscape of Sellafield, and the long temporalities of its nuclear legacy.]]></description><link>https://www.ellenapointer.com/post/a-toxic-legacy</link><guid isPermaLink="false">b358eda8-b020-4a3d-8245-23f7f0ecf230</guid><pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2026 05:25:15 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/132d74_7db76b8035f74355929f8121f3400ce6~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Ellie Pointer</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[THE RHYTHM OF YOKAGURA]]></title><description><![CDATA[In ancient Japan, places were named after the specific characteristics of the lands they inhabited. Miyazaki Prefecture was once known as Hyuga no Kuni, ‘the country that faces the sun’. It is widely regarded as the birthplace of Japan, a highly symbolic place where mythology, ritual, and daily life converge to honour the Shinto gods. In Shinto, the sun is a sacred entity, a reverent, tangible expression of a living kami...]]></description><link>https://www.ellenapointer.com/post/ritual-resistance-crafting-connections-in-ecology</link><guid isPermaLink="false">2e7e1e7b-9c40-4ccb-8f41-480acee8ddd2</guid><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 05:29:36 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/132d74_d9ec74c7abea4209a786b277b9b9b0ef~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Ellie Pointer</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[A MEDITATION IN CLAY]]></title><description><![CDATA[‘You can see the way the bowl is fired, how much oxygen is in the air’, Yuji mutters, gesturing carefully towards the middle shelf. A dappled ceramic plate is glazed russet red. Its surface is cracked, like cooled magma, holding minuscule fractures of time. ‘The less oxygen there is in the air, the deeper the colour’, he continues, ‘a plate like this is fired at 1250 degrees Celsius for over 24 hours.’]]></description><link>https://www.ellenapointer.com/post/the-interwoven-threads-of-landscape-and-memory</link><guid isPermaLink="false">7a962b15-dfd4-47d9-bbfe-03f184d371ce</guid><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 05:29:34 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/132d74_75edc92ed9664885921c14e5c96500c9~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Ellie Pointer</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>