project statement

 

Joon apothecary is an ongoing pop up community healing project. The apothecary is interested in serving Iranian immigrant and diasporic communities by making medicines with ancestral plants and considering how certain plants have affinities to help individuals deal with being displaced and uprooted from their homelands. Each iteration of the project has a different theme, the first was centered around  This artist book serves as a living document, it is a container where knowledge is re-claimed and re-membered.