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The Dirt on Grief is an offering of rituals and seeds to scatter. It gives us all a chance to be in the mud of our private and communal grief, to revel in healing plants as they grow and bloom (and yes, eventually die), as they are consumed, and as they return to the Earth.

This project grew from the seeds of friendship and inspiration between Katrina Goldsaito ( The Sound of Silence and so much more), Petra Page-Mann ( Fruition Seeds and so much more) & me, Jessica Gath. We look forward to feeling together and with you. And to seeing who and what comes up in future seasons’ incarnations.

The Dirt on Grief (Compost)
Center For Sustainable Practice in The Arts Quarterly Journal Q40
10 page article
2023
The Dirt on Grief (How to Thaw Your Own Heart)
Seeds frozen into ice hearts, participation
2022
The Dirt on Grief (How To Thaw Your Own Heart)
Seeds frozen into ice hearts, participation, zine
2022

For additional grief resources and information about their accompanying exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Elegy: Lament in the 20th Century click here.

Related Published Writing

The Center for Sustainable Practice in The Arts Quarterly: Q40 Spring/Summer 2023, “Compost”

Orion Magazine: Spring 2021, Sharlene Leurig & Jessica Gath. “Wish You Were Here: Postcards from the future”