Dream. For envisioning what doesn’t yet exist — the sacred, the symbolic, and the spoken into being. For inscriptions, blessings, and bespoke dedications that give name and meaning to memory. This is our beautiful beginning. Design a space that listens back. Root your rituals in reflecting the soul’s quiet.
Root. For grounding design in place, ecology, and memory — through gardens, landscapes, and sacred space-making. For cultivating a deep connection to land, lineage, and living design — where ecology meets spirit. For ecological design, sacred placemaking, and soulful gardens rooted in the natural and the eternal.
Wilt. For embracing impermanence — the beauty in withering, fading, and the sacred cycle of loss. A practice of witnessing the ephemeral, vanitas, natura morta, memento mori, and the quiet grace of decay. For exploring the tender threshold between life and loss — where time and matter fall away.
Transform. For reimagining what has been lost, overlooked, or undone — a practice of renewal through nature, art, and sacred space. For alchemy in form and feeling — where decay becomes beauty, and forgotten places become sanctuaries. For reshaping space and spirit — through ecological design, contemplative art, and reverent intervention.
Mourn. For holding grief in sacred space — through ritual, remembrance, and the landscapes of loss. For designing spaces of remembrance — memorial gardens, descansos, ofrendas, and ecological sanctuaries for healing. For honoring absence and tending sorrow — where design becomes devotion and memory finds form. For grief-tending, death work, ephemeral memorials, and sacred farewell rituals — a practice of giving form and voice to the unseen. For tending sorrow with beauty — through ritual, inscription, and sacred design that honors loss and gives voice to memory.
Sanctify. For creating sacred spaces — gardens, altars, shrines, grottoes, and thresholds. Where ritual, architectural salvage, relics, and esoteric practices root the mystical in place. For building places of presence — sacred gardens and altars where devotion, magic, and memory dwell. For sacred design — from contemplative gardens to theologically magical shrines. A practice of honoring the unseen through space, symbol, and spirit.
Contemplate. For creating spaces of stillness — Zen gardens, sanctuaries, and thresholds of quiet. An invitation to slow down, unplug, and return to presence. Cultivating mindful attention for interior sanctums — where quiet becomes form and space becomes breath.
Honor. For commemorating life, love, lineage, and legacy — through sacred design, ritual spaces, and objects of remembrance. For creating spaces and symbols of devotion — where memory is rooted in place and presence. For marking what matters — through altars, ancestral gardens, and rituals of remembrance.
Reclaim. For transforming rot, ruin, and forgotten spaces into sanctuaries. A practice of preservation and conservation, where the ethereal meets the aesthetic. For honoring what was left behind — working with decay, disrepair, and timeworn spaces to reveal hidden sanctity and silent beauty. For restoring wounded landscapes, ancestral portals, sacred ruins, and dying places — where beauty returns through care, vision, ritual, and love.
Create. For journaling, sketching, and field studies — a practice of artfully recording the rhythms of nature, decay, and becoming. For drawing with the seasons — making visible the quiet beauty of change, decay, and impermanence through mindful mark-making. For nature journals, travel sketchbooks, and still life studies — where art becomes a living archive of impermanence.
Consult. For working together and uplifting the synergy of multiple minds. Where partnership and collaboration equate to friendship and trust.
Share. For public art installations that draw attention to the people, places, and things we hide. This Dia de los Muertos art exhibit in Washington, DC is by Shauna Lee Lange, Founder of Veraspatia, and is entitled "Mis Dos Abuelas (My Two Grandmothers)". It was this first work that planted the seed for Veraspatia...finally germinating some 20 years later.