With backgrounds in visual art and physiotherapy, I am interested in conversations about how art heals, at both an individual and a community level. Since the pandemic, these conversations have been developing with urgency. This research investigates ways in which abstract art and walking can be used in healing. This Pecha Kucha- style presentation describes the making of my painting called Water Quilt, 2020-2021, which was created during the COVID outbreak and shortly after my sister in law’s sudden death. The work of art was made utilising an auto- ethnographic research methodology based on the readings of Deleuze’s notions of affect, non-human becoming’s and embodiment through the expressive, sensory nature of materials. It draws upon also Deleuze’s ideas of differences in becoming and his writings on difference and repetition as new and generative. During lockdown, I would walk down to Kedron Brook, a place close to my home. I found being able to connect with nature and also with other walkers, comforting and restorative. I would then go back to my studio and paint. After Annie’s death I began to specifically have encounters with butterflies as I walked along the Brook; I became the transformation of the butterfly. I became the flow of the water. Using the watercolour medium, colour, geometry, line and paper, I map a landscape of these entanglements and interconnections, exploring sensations of joy, flows of movement and rhythms of harmony. This research opens discussions on ways in which public spaces such as the Kedron Brook forms pedagogical potentials investigating flows of interconnectivity.