Story Residency with Paige Emery

As part of our ongoing work with Paige Emery, the artist takes over our Instagram as our Summer 2024 Story Resident! Follow Paige June 17–22, as we anticipate her fall project with Active Cultures, in partnership with The Brick and Arlington Garden. We’ll share more soon!

Paige’s practice with plants engages ritual as a communal language with the Earth, a process of rehabituation that resonates with Earthly cycles so that we may better listen to the Earth and coexist. She has been crafting plant remedies that work with ancestral knowledge to aid in transforming between worlds, and sculptural paintings made just the same, with plants of folk medicine and ceremonial food traditional to her Filipino ancestry. As she shares her practice of tuning in with Earthly cycles, her residency revolves around the Summer Solstice, where the Northern Hemisphere’s maximum tilt towards the sun marks the end of one cycle and the beginning of a new cycle. 

Each story takeover invites artists to share their research, process, travels, and more with our friends in LA and beyond. Past residencies are archived in our Instagram highlights and include colectivo amasijo, Meech Boakye, Charmaine Bee, Rikkí Wright, Juan William Chavez, Sarah Rara, Niki Nakazawa, David Horvitz, Spiral Theory Test Kitchen, and Jessica Wang. Past residencies are archived in our Instagram highlights.