PLANT-BASED PRACTICE

Ongoing project (initiated 2022)

PLANT-BASED PRACTICE is a long-term, participatory project offering herbal consultations to artists as a form of mutual care and creative process.

Drawing from clinical herbalism, creative facilitation, and site-based research, the project frames plant-based support not only as physical or emotional, but also as artistic: a means of tending to the vulnerable, generative terrain of creative life.

Sessions are held one-on-one and include herbal intakes, tincture-making, and personalized plant protocols. As part of my own practice, I respond to each session through drawing, cyanotype, and note-based organizing systems, marking the exchange not as documentation, but as a form of artistic processing and reciprocal attention. These materials form a growing archive of the project, charting both individual and collective patterns of need, resourcefulness, and seasonal change.

The project reimagines what support can look like within artistic communities, especially outside traditional institutional structures. It offers time, listening, slowness, and trust: qualities often devalued or outsourced in creative and care economies alike. PLANT-BASED PRACTICE resists the separation of art and life, centering care work as creative work and treating artistic identity not as a fixed category, but as something that can be remembered, reclaimed, and remade in conversation.

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