Dirt Gems is a plant oracle deck and guidebook designed to invite you into a more personal and subtle relationship with the plant world. It is a practice of listening and observation. Creating relationships with the nonhuman world requires that we slow down, decenter ourselves, and learn from the intelligence of the silken spider web, the humming saltmarsh, carnivorous bog plants, and desert superblooms. Explore the transcendent power of plant allies with Dirt Gems, a deluxe 65-card deck and illustrated guidebook set that harnesses the magic and mystery of the natural world. [[[More Info]]] Made in collaboration by Chelsea Granger & Anne Louise Burdett, this project contains 65 beautiful plant paintings, with a guidebook containing full descriptions of each plant, instructions on how to use the deck and the suits where they are grouped. This is a wellspring, it is a deep clear pool to dive into, emerging with your own beloved understanding of what these plants can mean to you, your life, and the greater community. This project is an invitation to come back, to the source, to where we have always belonged and towards where we must orient ourselves for a hopeful and bright future; forest, swamp, mountain, ocean. We are seeing our world changing rapidly. This project is designed to stir the memories of what it feels like to know that we are nature, never separate from it. If we can find our way back to understanding our role in this greater ecology, we can find our way forward. [[[Specifications]]] Year Published 2024 Cards 65 full colour Guidebook 168 pages Anne Louise Burdett is an agroecologist, conservation scientist, clinical herbalist, and educator. Much of her career has been geared towards community organizing around food and health justice. She has a masters in marine conservation and climate resilience, her approach is through a lens of mutual aid, scientific literacy, and outright wonder. Chelsea Granger is a multidisciplinary artist. Painting, drawing, illustration, murals, and tattoos are the foundation of her practice. She recently self-published a zine about death and grief titled So Many Ways to Draw a Ghost. After the death of her mom as well as a dear friend, she started seeing her art as a way to sing up life, with the hope that her art can act as a doorway to create conversations about death and grief. Her work celebrates life while honoring death and walking gently into the unknown. Chelsea and Annie have been dear friends and collaborators for 20+ years, working in The Royal Frog Ballet together for much of this time as well as other independent projects. Dirt Gems was made through a deeply loving and collaborative process between life long friends.
