devynee dawn

bridging

Birthday dinner with my food fairy girlfriends 🧚🧚🏼‍♀️🧚‍♂️ Eating and reflecting about life alongside women who are as in tune with the rhythms of their inner world as they are with the produce that is in season 🌀 a magical practice of presence and grounding 🦋🫛🌷🦢🌳🍒 turned 35 this year and for the first time in my life that does not feel right lol

Looking back at Where Life Continues: A meal, a celebration, and a commencement in collaboration with PADMA and Chef Dev on April 4th, 2026. Last weekend we recognized the three-year process with a gathering that celebrated our Encinitas Edition’s launch and its Guild. We toasted to a collaborative and regeneratively-led future, and enjoyed a menu and sculptural dining installation, derived by PADMA and Chef Dev, with three conceptual themes: 1 - Return: Arrival as remembrance. The evening began with honoring the land’s first stewards. 2 - Integration: Life is in relationship, an experience recognizing the ecological web around us. 3 - Transformation: Finally, regeneration made visible. The process of continuing through slow transformation. Thank you to our collaborators and our friends for joining us for a very memorable day✨🦋 Installation design & ceramics by PADMA @padma.earth Dinner & food design by Chef Dev @_devsmith Wine by Shrieking Meemies @shriekingmeemies Unfold Margarita by Las Olas @lasolasmex Beautifully captured by Stacy Keck @stacykeck

Feeling really grateful and humbled to share this offering brought together by my sister @_devsmith , myself, the sheep, the shepherd, and the long line of humans and indigenous folks who have developed and continued this practice. About 2 years ago I tanned my first hide. As I was driving back home while living in Northern California, I was having visions of what it would be life to process an animal. I had been plant based for 6 years, but was opening into the bloody honesty that comes with connecting with our food. Not only that, but honoring the life and body of the beautiful beings hit by cars in more rural areas. I didn’t have service or WiFi at this time, and when I arrived home it was only about 10 minutes till I heard a panflute at the door. My neighbor, Starlight , had come upon the lifeless body of a young buck in the road and did not have time to process him herself. We hung him from a tree and his meat began to be processed as I watched, stunned at the quickness this vision had become reality. I was called up to help pull down his skin, and she loosely guided me on how to build a frame, stretch the hide, and scoop his brain out to work it into his skin for the next few days. His skin became a drum, his bones a hanging piece of art, and his meat endless pots of winter stew. Since then, I have had the honor of deepening this practice with sheep hides and from other friends and techniques. Continuing this practice after moving back to LA - further from roadkill or agriculture - by connecting with a regenerative butcher and shepherd, has been so crucial to balancing my connection to the Earth and her rhythms while working on recording music and doing city life things. I have tried to share this practice with others who feel called, and have learned in that process that this experience NEEDS a dedicated container when being shared especially for the first time. A set of days to be able to do nothing, but devote oneself to the hide, the process, the inner movements in the face of death and transformation at our own hands. With that, we have set the container - dm for details

New and old. Who wants the gf buckwheat zucchini chocolate bread recipe on second to last slide?

Once upon a time, by the sea… bridal portraits in a special cove 🤍🐚 on medium format film 🎞️ the childlike wonder of creating these >

No complaints

So proud of my daughters and want to give a shout out to each of them!! Devynee Smith is a gifted culinary director/producer/artist and chef located in the Los Angeles, CA area (@_devsmith ) Brynlee Smith’s incredible crocheted art, clothing and accessories is found on Etsy under the account name “Binnies16”. A link is in her Instagram bio (@_bryn_smith ) Jezree Smith is a talented tattoo artist located in St George, UT. Book appts @willow.inkk Katelyn Mitchell skilled personal trainer at St George’s own Hive Therapy (@k.c.vitality ) And Atlyn Smith is a master aesthetician, her nails and eyelashes are top notch! (aestheticallyatlyn)

It’s always bittersweet to receive film photos and they turn out to be accidental double exposures. I almost felt sad about it and the grief of losing my photos but there’s also something really special about the art of it all combined. Within these photos is a combination of pictures captured of my friends from my trip to Colorado in 2024, my yearly Jtree trip with my pisces brother Jump, my 25th birthday and mystery photos that I couldn’t quite figure out. #35mm

this video loops nicely like myself in this chrysalis emergence after cosmic slop ~~~

@rvr.venice you blow us away every time . #venicebeach #abbotkinney #losangeles #losangelesrestaurants #larestaurants

It’s so cool to release music with our friends, and furthermore, to make an arresting music video in collaboration with even more friends. And finally, to get to celebrate it with our sabbath community. This night was so special - in celebration of our @secularsabbathrecords Nulu ( @krotchy ) song release of Maybe It’s A Dream ! Go stream and share and show us how it fits into your world, now 🤍