Botanical Concrete Artifact Workshop: with Robyn & Anima Mundi

Ready to roll up your sleeves? Join us with architect and artist, Robyn Squires [RYSQ] for a hands-on workshop that explores the sensory language of texture and color through the creation of bespoke Botanical Infused Concrete Artifacts.

Inspired by the release of Anima Mundi's new Ritual Candles, you’ll learn to blend, dye, cast, and finish your own concrete art piece with botanicals and natural indigo. Tactile, low-commitment, fun, while also meditative, the process moves from liquid to solid within minutes, offering an intimate front-row seat to a heat-activated transformation.

This class will focus mainly on botanical candle holders for both tapered candles and tealights, though there may be some additional molds available. Some of the candle holders can also double as incense or palo santo holders!

If you would like to make more than one artifact, please purchase the Admission +1 ticket! Admission price only includes the supplies for one object, but many people enjoy making a second while the first one sets. Please purchase the +1 ticket if this sounds like you!

While your piece sets, enjoy a custom-crafted drink, conversation, take a moment to stretch, explore essential oils and a curated wall of botanical ingredients to learn more about their energetic and healing properties.

We invite you to join the conversation. Take a calculated RYSQ [pronounced risk] and explore a new medium to start building your own ritual set.

How to Prepare for the Event:

• Dress comfortably in clothes you don’t mind getting splashed with residual concrete, water, or the occasional indigo dye—things might get a little messy (in the best way!)
• Gloves and all necessary materials will be provided.

• BYO Apron.

What’s Included:

• Create and take home your own one-of-a-kind botanical infused concrete incense holder
• Experiment with Anima Mundi botanicals and RYSQ-sourced natural dyes.
• Sip on curated beverage and enjoy conversation, a mini stretch and a meditation break while your creation cures and sets.
• Learn about the properties and use of your decorative herbs and botanicals.
• A discount on select candles from Anima Mundi and incense sticks from The Alchemist's Kitchen so you can use your artifacts as soon as you get home!

Robyn at the core is an abstract photographer & synthesizer. Scaling ideas from the abstract to real, from art to architecture, is a form of expression that she consistently hovers between. In the shadows and reflections of her professional career in architecture and construction management in NYC, she founded RYSQ Design Collective in 2005, as a collaborative umbrella for building ideas with friends near and far. Helping others bring their visions to life, and having them symbiotically push hers to the next level ... That is priceless. In 2024 she took this one step further and formed Sqrypt Atelier, in an effort to develop a progressively refined yet raw art co-op and wellbeing venture concept.

This workshop is further shaped by Robyn’s recent sabbatical in the zone of the Blue Zones, which she refers to as 'the Indigo Zones'. In the last 2 years she's been to Japan, Costa Rica, California, Italy, and Portugal [close enough to the 5th one Greece :)] where she's been inspired with her creative endeavors to network and collaborate on a global scale. Her proof of concept for this Art Co-op is currently in Upstate New York at Inn Way. In a recent local journal she noted: 'How can I scale this idea to other countries before experimenting in my own backyard of NY.' She firmly believes through the lens of art and architecture, it is possible to cultivate longer, healthier sustainable lives. To truly Heal-thy buildings and trust space again. We need to start by understanding how to work with one of the most common building materials in use globally today. By infusing concrete with indigo and botanicals, we can experiment with material and textures at a functional level with these cast artifacts. Eventually the concept will scale to design and cultivate sustainable spaces to support healing, connection, and longevity.

Our Apothecary is composed of organic, wildcrafted, and ethically grown botanicals. We aim to continuously source pristine, unadulterated and wholesome medicines for mind, body and soul wellness. Anima Mundi is devoted to making vibrant and medicinally potent remedies that honor the principles of harmony and ancient formulation that have years of anecdotal and traditional evidence. Our founder Adriana moved to Brooklyn from Costa Rica with a mission to bridge remedies from native people within Central and South America to modern day needs and imbalances.

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