Paige Emery is an artist, herbalist and plant dreamer exploring rituals of remembering the Earth. Her work interweaves healing arts and critical ecology, ancestral memory and embodied futurities, ecopoetics and socioenvironmental praxis. As a way of life, her practice is rooted in reverence for and reciprocity with the Earth.

Stemming from a background in art, herbalism, ecophilosophy, environmental activism, and learning from the Earth, Paige’s practice serves as a bridge between the internal landscape and the external landscape of ecological consciousness. This takes shape through multitudes of entangled forms such as paintings alchemized with plants, site-specific land art installations, plant rituals for more-than-human communication, performance lectures, guided ecology walks, and sharing herbal remedies with her community. Her work advocates for being in right relationship with the Earth, so she works with eco-friendly materials like paint made from plants and canvas and paper made from plant fibers.

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Previous works include art installations for more-than-human divination systems at Biosphere 2, Arizona, multispecies ecopoetics at Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, guided sonic hypnosis for healing in the dream state at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, performance lectures on divinatory ecologies for more-than-human time at Gray Area Festival, plant rituals for memory gardens at Biennale Gherdëina, Italy, guerrilla gardens of political resistance and mutual aid with houseless neighbors at Echo Park Lake, guided ecology walks with Architecture and Design Museum, and her plant remedies for transitioning between worlds at Earth Medicine Apothecary.