The Garden Between Life and Death are a series of alchemical coalescences of herbal medicine, painting, and healing rituals. As a way of connecting to plants and being as ecologically conscious as possible with materials, I make my own paint with medicinal plant infusions, hand-mixing the paint in a tedious labor of love. Both the paint and the material painted on are made from plants significant to my ancestral homelands the Philippines. Each painting is made through an elaborate act of ritual. This act of ritual with plants has been exploring in what ways of we can we carry the medicine of plants when our planet is being destroyed, in what ways can we remember love in times of grieving, in what ways new life can come from death. The plants are teachers of how we can turn death into life. 

The ritual is an entity of a sacred garden. A garden that will continue even as the world is ending. One that holds all of the memories of love and connection, memories remembered into new dreams.