Kaleidoscope Garden

devotions to earth & flora
as muse and mentor.

Kaleidoscope Garden has become a quiet sanctuary bursting with color and visual poetry. A space where beauty and chaos coexist. I grow everything in the garden organically following Biodynamic principles. Some plants are grown for nourishment, some for medicine, and some just for their plant essence and symbolism alone. I follow moon phases, seasonal cues, intuitive rituals, and trust the land as a collaborator guiding me in the process. It is an approach to growth through gentleness, alignment, and trust rather than domination or hyper-vigilance.

This garden began after years of working in ecological restoration, tending to damaged landscapes across North America. Though I spent many years in the field, this was my first garden built from scratch, starting with depleted soil and slowly learning how to rehabilitate it by hand. I studied how to nourish the earth, how to feed it the minerals it needs to thrive, and in doing so, the garden began to nourish me in return. The process grounds me in the cyclical nature of the land and deepens my relationship with the esoteric wisdom plants carry. It’s become a form of reciprocity, and a way of tending to things graciously, letting them unfold on their own time through support rather than force or persuasion. It’s helped me connect more fully to our interspecies entanglement and see how deeply the earth cherishes us when we meet it with presence and care.

Kaleidoscope Garden is not limited to gardening or one specific space. It moves between the cultivated and the wild, and wherever I am called to honor the present moment in nature. It draws from plant folklore, poetry, astrology, esoteric wisdom, and the belief that devotion to nature is a way of remembering how to tend to our truest selves. It has become a way of reframing personal mythology and shedding limiting beliefs; a return to trusting one’s innate gifts and goodness. Honoring the desire to play, create, romanticize, and explore is a sacred act of tenderness and liberation. In a world constructed to make us forget that softness is power, choosing to protect wonder is a quiet form of rebellion; one that serves not only the self, but the collective.

This project is woven into my art practice in subtle and endlessly evolving ways. It informs how I think about care, impermanence, storytelling, and transformation. It teaches through slowness, attention, and the ongoing practice of letting go. Above all, it is a study in relationship and deep listening, a way of showing up to witness the mystery of the universe and the presence of the transcendental in everyday life. It is a daily act of co creation with a living world that is unpredictable, unfathomable, and deeply generous.