Sunlight streaming through a misty evergreen forest with a small stream

Creating peace & beauty
in a connected world.

A home for poetry, photography, books, community gatherings, and the quiet, positive changes that help us find balance, joy, and each other.

The Mission

Many passions, one gentle mission — to make room for beauty, honesty, and quiet joy.

heARTworks with Tasha is a living gathering place — for poems written in the margins, photographs taken on long walks, books that arrive when you need them, and the small community rituals that remind us we are not alone. It is a slow, sincere invitation to slow down and reconnect.

A quiet still-life expressing the mission of heARTworks

I planted a small quiet

where the noise used to grow —

and something honest bloomed.

— from the notebooks

Portrait of Tasha Bellini, artist and poet

About Tasha

A poet with a camera. A writer with a garden of ideas.

I'm Tasha — a poet, photographer, and writer working in the tender space between film, song, and community. I plan gatherings small and large (including a project I can't wait to share soon), and I'm endlessly curious about the ordinary rituals that help us feel at peace.

This is where I share what I'm making — books and small products, the calendar of events I'm hosting or attending, the collaborations I'm lucky to be part of, and the little pieces of a life spent noticing.

"Peace is a practice. Beauty is an act of attention."

Poetry
Photography
Writing
Community

Creative Works

Books, photographs, film, and song — a garden in progress.

Field Notes on SoftnessBook

Field Notes on Softness

A forthcoming collection of poems written on porches, park benches, and long train rides.

Coming soon

The Small ShopPrints & Goods

The Small Shop

Photography prints, hand-designed shirts, and quiet objects made in small runs.

In the studio

Between FramesFilm & Song

Between Frames

Short films and songs made in collaboration with friends — soft, honest, and unhurried.

New chapters

Photography & Poetry

Long walks, quiet mornings, and the light that catches you off guard.

A slow archive of images and words gathered along the way — the forest after rain, the flowers no one else stopped for, and the small confessions between them.

A quiet river running through misty forest at twilight
The river remembers what we forget — every step, every song.
Dewdrops on evergreen fern leaves
Each drop a small mirror, holding the whole sky.
Wildflowers among ferns in soft evening light
An open handwritten poetry journal beside dried flowers
Golden light streaming through an evergreen forest

Let us make room, then,

for softness. Let us make it

the loudest thing we do.

Events & Community

Gather with us — slowly, warmly, on purpose.

A rotating calendar of readings, workshops, walks, and small gatherings — designed to let people release stress, breathe together, and remember what they love.

Coming Spring

Poems in the Park

Community reading · outdoors

A gentle afternoon of shared poems, blankets on the grass, and open mic if the wind agrees.

Season TBA

Slow Walk & Photograph

Small group · nature trail

A silent walk with cameras and journals, ending with tea and quiet conversation.

In the works

The Bigger Project

To be announced

A larger community initiative I'm building carefully — it will have its own home soon.

Passion Projects

Larger ideas, gently tended — rooms with the doors still open.

These are the bigger initiatives I'm quietly building. Each one will grow into something of its own in time — for now, they live here, side by side.

The Peace Practice

A growing library of gentle rituals, prompts, and prompts-for-two — for finding stillness in ordinary days.

In gentle progress

Community in Progress

A larger gathering I'm slowly building with friends and neighbors — a place to talk about balance, kindness, and the planet.

In gentle progress

Books & Small Press

A home for hand-designed books, chapbooks, and zines — printed in small, meaningful runs.

In gentle progress

A Vision for What's Next

To make the world a little more peaceful, one honest gathering at a time.

Everything here is a doorway. Some rooms are almost ready; others are still being imagined. Thank you for wandering in — I hope you leave a little softer than you arrived.

Say Hello

Let's stay connected.

For collaborations, kind words, questions about events, or just to say a poem found you — I'd love to hear from you.