My name is Carolina Vieira. I grew up in loud homes full of color, plants, and people, and somehow that never left me.

Before ceramics and flowers in Oakland, there were years in Brazil pressing plants into herbarium sheets. Labeling species. Documenting stamen structures. Identifying what most people walk past without noticing. Botanist, educator, flower taxonomist, herbarium curator. All words that identified me. And also, always, someone who needs her hands in dirt or clay to feel like herself.

When I moved from Brazil to California, I didn't expect to grieve the plants. But I did. Not the species. The relationship. The rhythms. It took me a while to understand that care was what had always made me feel at home, and that I could rebuild it anywhere I landed. Care as a way of knowing you belong somewhere. That's what this work is built on.

I work with people who feel a little outside the world of art and plants. People growing new roots in new places. People who think their space isn't worthy of beauty yet, or who grew up with a specific plant on a specific windowsill, tended by someone who never explained why. That knowledge is still in you. You just haven't had a space to bring it back.

Think of me as your older prima who happens to know a lot about plants and clay, not here to teach you from scratch, just to remind you what you already carry.

Whether it's a workshop, a handmade sculpture that holds your plants, a floral arrangement for your dining table, or a plant consultation for a hallway that's been asking for a little life. What I'm really offering is the same thing each time: a way back to care.