Alyssa Dennis of Eclipta Herbal, will address the social and ecological motives of her project, the Invasive Apothecary, and discuss the medicinal attributes of some of the “worst of the worst” in terms of invasive plant species. We will look at aquatic plants like Phragmites and what this being offers the waters of the land and the waters of body. We will consider how the erasure of traditional ecological knowledge, about these plants, has been abandoned at the expense of dissociating the fact that their curative human virtues directly mirror the remedial virtues for the land and surrounding tributaries. Find out more about the Invasive Apothecary here: https://ecliptaherbal.com/invasive-apothecary
Alyssa Dennis is an interdisciplinary artist, educator and trained clinical herbalist. Her work deploys ecological literacy through the culturally invisible practice of herbal medicine and land stewardship. She is particularly interested in accepting & integrating the virtues of plant intelligence as a solution to climate change that positively restructures our relationship with the land; one that is rooted in place-based identity which reestablishes reciprocity, respect & responsibility for our non-human kin.
Both art project and clinical herbal pharmacy her project the Invasive Apothecary proposes creative solutions to the current capital centric, xenophobic, war-like paradigm of invasive plant species management.
