“Dig a Hole…A Nest” Group Exhibition at the Ace Hotel

December 2025- January 2026

Project description:

These works take the form of altars—odes to the intimacy and kinship cultivated with three plants during the past farm season: Rue, Chamomile, and Mugwort. While in full bloom, each plant was prepared as a flower essence, its energetic imprint held in water, allowing the relationship to persist in another form.

Each altar offers a space for reverence and quiet connection through three temporal states of the plant: the essence (its memory), the seeds (its future), and the plant in decay (its present). Viewers are invited to engage with the essences and to create their own moment of communion with each plant.

“Chamomile Essence“

Raw burnished red clay, beeswax, chamomile flower, chamomile seeds, chamomile flower essence

12”x10”x1”

“Rue Essence”

Raw burnished red clay, beeswax, rue leaves, rue seeds, rue flower essence 

9”x8”x1”

“Mugwort Essence”

Raw burnished red clay, beeswax, mugwort leaves, mugwort seeds, mugwort flower essence 

4”x9”x1.5”