Garden of Earthly Delights on Friday was a thoughtful, sensory, inspiring experience created by @sashaemoniee & @padma.earth , two incredible women and installation artists that I have had the honor of working with the last couple of years. They transformed the annex into their joint garden, sharing their harvests with everyone in attendance. they invited us to play, to taste, to rest, to question.
Sasha and Kyna believe gardening and the garden are a form of resistance to systems of oppression, a place of peace and liberation, a response to violence and strife.
“In the original work of Boschs triptych it was getting at how we must seek and create the garden of earthly delights and we have to find that narrow space between void and violence where it can exist. I think it’s the perfect opportunity to share that a garden is not separate from the realities of the world, it’s a response to it.”
Thank you to all of the artists that helped bring the full vision to life: @ariellakirschbaumceramics beautiful floral ceramics @nicolas__snyder garden inspired set, @projectedvisions projection mapping @_devsmith and @carternorvell food styling
& of course our team keeping the annex morphing safely into new forms: @elliebenov@idreamofnoodles@_nic_sun_@cupoftttea@oof_dre@emerald.rhythms@tanyaamatthews@ahdom honorary @joylynnnoel colton
@fleur.boy
#gardenofearthlydelights #garden #teahouse #edibleinstallation #gardenasresistance #freepalestine
been mostly offline these past months. hands in clay. serpent has been a symbol i’ve been connecting with lately. one drawn from the garden, naturally. symbolizing feminine strength and matriarchal power. shedding, transforming through uncertainty, softening in the ascending non-linear movement of growth
it’s messy, all this change. with a stronghold in old paradigms of power rooted in separation, control, and competition. but i feel it’s a transformation that’s inevitable, internally within and externally in society. tension is in the resistance. it calls for me/us to trust it, participate in it, create it, and celebrate it
some recent work of reverence to divine feminine power—
1 ‘kundalini altar’, ceramic
2 ‘serpent dance’, ceramic
3 ‘prayer for Her’, ceramic
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LIVING CLOTHING 🌱
A living clothing and grazing installation for @commonsearth ’s earth summit. By Sasha & Kyna ♥️ @sashaemoniee@padma.earth
The earth day event centered on the question, “how do we live within earth’s means?” In line with how Commons guides people, we probed more specifically on “how could we consume clothing within earth’s means?”
These garments are constructed of natural fibers and infused with living, growing sprouts of edible crops such as arugula, radish, broccoli, and amaranth. They reflect clothing as part of a living cycle, grown and harvested by farmers, crafted by workers, worn by us — eventually returning to the earth. Whereas the majority of clothing today is made from various forms of plastic that will take generations to break down, all the while filling our land and oceans with microplastics.
The clothes are accompanied by a grazing table infused by the same food grown on the living clothing, showing that clothes made & consumed sustainably are part of one earth ecosystem. Grows from soil, goes back to soil.
We had a lot of fun slow crafting all the details—from the sprouted clothing, plant-dyed lanterns, ceramics, and woven food 🌱 everyday is earth day 🌱 feels good to be back 🌱
Assist by
Helia @bigdillkitchen
Joy @joylynnnoel
Thank you a million 💗
Photos by
Kyna @kynap
Amea @ameaa 💗
La Tavola Viva, an evening with @bioitalia
Hosted and produced by @slo____slo
Dinner by Chef @amandajlasagna
A table shaped by simple rituals:
pasta made by hand, ingredients grown with care and rooted in generations of Italian farming, and time shared together.
Thank you to everyone who dined with us and made the evening feel so full.
Mangia, mangia ♥️
photography by @marysergeevnaa
video by @ganna_bogdan
Friends of Mavie: A series highlighting the experts, creators, and mothers building Mavie with us.
Meet @kynap , an artist whose work explores ecology, gathering, and our relationship to food and land.
In her video, Kyna shares her almond chia pancakes: a gluten-free, nutrient-packed recipe designed to support steady energy and lasting nourishment. You’ll find this recipe and more in the app, launching Mother’s Day.
Handbuilt dinner plates by slo slo’s @dajanarads & @kynap
Every detail, from food to ceramics to experience design, is shaped thoughtfully, meant to be shared slowly in good company.
An intentional night of gathering for Nowruz with our friends, @usal.project@annex.house
The Haftsin was filled with Mohsen’s family heirlooms from Iran, along with slo slo’s handcrafted ceramics.
Chef @niiims prepared a traditional intentional feast starting with house sangak with dips, to whole wood fired grilled branzinos, ending with Mohsen’s Maman’s homemade baklava.
Thank you to our amazing guests who dined with us, to @goodboywine for the wine, and to our wonderful staff @rositapetal and @squigglystick for taking care of the space and our guests.
To remember is to resist.
To gather is to resist.
For over 3,000 years, Nowruz has marked renewal, the return of light, and the persistence of life.
May Iran and Iranians be free from suffering.
Photography by @marysergeevnaa
Video by @reefturner
The Gut Garden — for Rewilding Lab
A harvest table imagining the gut as a garden.
Moss, herbs, roots, flowers, fungi, arranged as a landscape of nourishment — shifting the language of wellness from control to biodiversity.
Plant installation by @brrch_floral@27339k
Rewilding Lab co-created with @padma.earth@itsgoodbacteria
Custom round steel table by @nickgrreen
Thank you Brittany & Liz, for creating the gut garden of our dreams. x
these @lilyforbesco silk pieces genuinely make me so happy to wear ❤️💙💜💛💚🧡🩷 intentionally sourced and designed, made with care for the earth and the people behind them.
photos by @sophiaschrank 🩵
SOCIAL HUMMUS x PADMA
Last of the tomato harvest dinner 🍅
Celebrated the turning of the season a couple weeks back and built an altar for the end of summer’s favorite jewel—in honor of our hummus flavor collaboration, Sunset Tomato & Basil Tahini
Transitions and seasonal in-betweens can feel ungrounding, so we gathered around a table of friends and food that hug you into memories of shedding and surrendering into the crispness of autumn—making change taste a lil sweeter x
MORE THAN HUMAN — a dining experience by PADMA for @itsgoodbacteria ’s launch
Creative Direction, Production, Food + Floral Design: @padma.earth
Food: @sashaemoniee
Farm Stand: @dajanarads
Assist: @bigdillkitchen
Hosted at @kateparfet ’s beautiful home, with a stunning moss-mound table by @em__joss .
I’ve nerded out on gut health for years — this dinner turned that passion into a menu where food became a metaphor for our microbial world.
We are walking ecosystems, more bacteria than human. Each course celebrated that truth — prebiotics, probiotics, and postbiotics in concert, like instruments in a microbial symphony.
Sasha took the vision to new heights with her unique, delicious dishes, and I’m endlessly grateful to Dajana & Helia for their creativity and support.
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