My name is Emi and I’m excited to share my work with you. My artistic practice draws inspiration from a childhood spent in the garden, where I developed a reverence for flowers and their secrets. Nowadays, I spend time in the forest near my home in Portland, OR. Here, I revisit my lifelong fascination with the language of plants and with the tiny communities teeming in every tree stump. My artwork explores these hidden wonders, using playful colors and meandering shapes to soften the line between dreams and reality. Through the lens of fanciful creatures and botanical curiosities, I invite viewers to reclaim the wonderment of their inner child–and, in the process, bring more tenderness into their own corner of the world.