Pearypie´s Sky Garden: Where Creativity Meets Ecology
- Green Embassy
- Jan 14
- 9 min read
An intimate conversation with Pearypie on sustainability, education, and learning to live with intention!
Introduction: When Creativity Becomes Responsibility
Creativity is often celebrated for what it produces: images, objects, performances, trends. But rarely do we ask what it trains: sensitivity, observation, curiosity and care.
We start the year with our first featured collaboration blog post, featuring the person and work of Pearypie from Bangkok (Thailand). If Nature is our Mother, then Pearypie is our sister. This article is the fruit of an intimate conversation between Lucas and Pearypie on various subjects around her life. Together, we explore how a life rooted in makeup, art, and performance gradually evolved into one centred on ecology, education, and environmental stewardship.
This article is not about perfection, nor about having all the answers. It is about learning to slow down, listen, and widen the circle of care. This is Pearypie. We hope you fall in love.
I. Creativity as Foundation, Before Sustainability Had Rooted
Pearypie’s relationship with creativity began long before sustainability entered her vocabulary. Makeup, for her, was never just about appearance. It was a tool for storytelling, experimentation, and emotional expression.
“Makeup and art were the first tools I used to explore creativity and tell stories. Through colour, texture, and movement, I learned how expression shapes confidence and identity.”
Studying in London exposed her to radically different forms of self-expression compared to her earlier education in Thailand. Creativity became a language through which people understood themselves and the world. At the time, responsibility was not a conscious framework. But in hindsight, she recognises that creative disciplines - such as beauty, fashion and art - always shape what feels normal, desirable, or valuable.
“Creative work carries responsibility from the moment it is shared. It shapes culture, whether we acknowledge it or not.”
For Pearypie, sustainability did not arrive as a trend. It came later, in the shape of responsibility that, for some time, had already been forming inside her mind and heart. What began as curiosity eventually sharpened into awareness. Mother Nature was calling her.
II. When Excess Becomes Impossible to Ignore
After more than a decade in the beauty industry, Pearypie found herself surrounded by abundance that no longer felt creative. Boxes of barely used endorsed products and endless launches with minimal distinction made one truth impossible to ignore: speed had replaced meaning. This, she realised, is the inevitable outcome of a fast-paced world built on constant production rather than thoughtful creation.
“At some point, the focus shifted from creating meaningful work to selling volume. Excess became normalised.”
For Pearypie, the breaking point was not dramatic. It was cumulative. Emotional fatigue mirrored environmental discomfort. Curiosity faded. The body responded before the mind fully caught up.
“I started questioning not just what I was creating, but why. The gap between effort and meaning became impossible to ignore.”
What once felt exciting began to feel heavy. Continuing “business as usual” was no longer an option. Pearypie´s decision to step away was not an escape from creativity but a return to her roots.
III. Letting Go of Old Definitions of Success
Listening to that inner resistance required sacrifice. Walking away meant losing visibility, financial security, professional status, and external validation.
“I lost trust from brands, opportunities, followers, even a sense of safety. I had to start over and become a beginner again.”
Yet this pause opened space for reconnection. Returning to Thailand, Pearypie immersed herself in land-based learning: marine ecosystems, forests, farming, weaving, natural dyes, and local food systems. Her method was to return to Earth, to community, and to principle. Through this grounding, she allowed herself to be reshaped - not reinvented - as a quiet rebirth rooted in place, practice, and belonging.
“Nature taught me patience. Craft taught me process. Communities taught me generosity.”
Success slowly transformed—from scale and recognition to alignment and continuity.
“Today, success means being able to keep learning, to work in a way that supports life rather than burns it out.”
Different from the speed at which the beauty industry was driving her, by slowing down emerged a different way of learning - one rooted in doing, not explaining.
IV. Learning Through Living: Education as Embodied Experience
Pearypie does not position herself as someone who teaches sustainability from the outside. Knowledge, in her practice, is first embodied before it is shared with her community. The distinguishing force of this quietly pedagogical journey lies in intimacy with natural processes - learning through repetition, observation, and lived experience rather than instruction alone.
“I learn by doing, repeating, living with it. When I share, it comes from experience, not theory.”
Whether working with textiles, plants, or food, she always begins with the same process: materials, origins, systems. Only then can implementation and assimilation blossom.
“When you understand how something is made, the result carries more meaning. People feel that immediately.”
Emotion plays a crucial role. We know for a fact that visuals do capture our attention, but feelings create memories that will last. One of Pearypie´s principles is to first make you feel, to exercise your five senses, for you to aggregate those new memories.
“When people touch soil or see colour coming from plants, sustainability stops being abstract. It becomes personal.”
This is also how she avoids sustainability becoming performance.
“If I don’t live it, I don’t share it. Practice comes before content.”
That philosophy found a physical home in an unlikely place: a rooftop, in the middle of the amazing city of Bangkok.
V. The Sky Garden: Where Art, Science, and Ecology Meet
The Pearypie Sky Garden began during COVID as a personal act of healing. With no prior gardening experience, she learned through trials and errors, observation, and repetition. Failure was an ingredient she had to master to grow.
“The first year was hard. I made many mistakes. But the garden taught me how systems adapt—even in small urban spaces.”
Over time, the rooftop became a living ecosystem and an educational space. Workshops now focus on soil health, plant development, insects, composting, and seasonal cycles.
“We start with soil, not plants. Understanding the system gives people confidence to adapt knowledge to their own spaces.”
Her artistic background remains present. The garden is designed like a living composition, where colour, texture, and growth unfold over time.
“Beauty emerges from understanding, not decoration.”
Art, traditional craft, and science follow the same logic: close observation, fundamentals first, responsiveness over control. This way of working reshapes not only how sustainability is practised, but how it is communicated.
VI. Integrity in a Noisy, Consumption-Driven World
On Pearypie’s platforms, ethics are disarmingly simple: share what is real, not what performs. Metrics such as likes, follows, and engagement are not the centre of her mission. When digital resonance happens, it is not engineered - it is the consequence of having created genuine connection, memory, and meaning.
“I don’t chase trends or algorithms. I share what I’m living, learning, and experimenting with.”
There is no doubt that a strong woman stands behind the Pearypie Sky Garden, yet that strength is communicated with a rare sense of rhythm and restraint. Responsibility, in her practice, does not require volume. Making a difference, adding value, and advocating for the environment is not a noisy affair.
“When attention doesn’t add value, silence carries more weight than visibility.”
She leads by example, protecting her integrity by remaining rooted in real life - building healthy soil, nurturing relationships, and respecting the time nature requires. Every initiative and expression is shared with intention, using digital platforms as tools of transmission rather than forces that dictate direction.
“As long as I stay connected to real systems, the digital world stays in its place.”
VII. Sustainability Without Perfection
Pearypie rejects the idea of the “perfect environmentalist,” and this grounded stance informs her approach to sustainability as a whole. She is not an environmental militant, nor does she claim authority through certainty. She advocates and shares, whilst continuing to learn. At heart, she is a romantic - one who believes in care, curiosity, and the quiet power of lived experience to create lasting change.
“Perfection creates paralysis. Sustainability is a practice, not an identity.”
Over the past decade, the health of our planet has reached a critical point. Humanity has followed a path rooted in extractivism - one that reduces ecosystems to resources and people to consumers. While this system encourages conformity and convenience, meaningful change often begins with those who choose to pause, question, and act differently. For Pearypie, transformation does not come from grand gestures or moral pressure, but from small, realistic actions woven into everyday life. In her experience, guilt must be replaced by curiosity, and pressure must give way to care. When this happens, space for change becomes sustainable, human, and enduring.
"Putting labels on people creates distance and pressure, and it turns sustainability into an identity rather than a practice. When sustainability is framed around perfection (...) that stops action. Real change comes from awareness, effort, and consistency, not from fitting into a title. When people feel capable, they keep going.”
When taking time to explore the Pearypie Sky Garden, the practices Pearypie values most reveal themselves as humanly simple: act from genuine care, commit - even through failure - and listen to one’s inner voice rather than external trends. Through this approach, sustainability shifts from a fixed destination to a shared path, shaped by intention, patience, and continued learning.
VIII. Education as Legacy and Shared Future
Education is a common ground shared by both Lucas Bueno and Pearypie in the way they engage with their platforms. Green Embassy and the Pearypie Sky Garden are each built upon pedagogical foundations that seek not only to inform but to shape minds and shift hearts. When asked, “If sustainability and eco-consciousness education were redesigned, what should it prioritise?” Pearypie’s response was clear and resolute: a return to basics.
While acknowledging how technology and successive industrial revolutions have shaped us as a species, they both recognise what was lost along the way - the most fundamental skill of all: an innate relationship with, and understanding of, nature. For Pearypie, rebuilding this connection must begin with growing food, understanding materials, observing seasons, and learning directly from natural systems. These, she believes, should form the educational pillars of our society if we are to recover the time spent degrading our environment and, in doing so, to ourselves.
“I see myself as a student of the Earth. That mindset keeps me humble and open.”
Complex challenges require cross-disciplinary collaboration: art, science, local knowledge and education, all working together.
“Shared values matter more than proximity. Alignment makes collaboration meaningful.”
The digital landscape is saturated with so-called “influencers” whose primary role is to endorse consumption and drive sales. Pearypie stands distinctly apart from this model, and it is precisely this difference that resonates so strongly with us. Her ethics, intentions, and way of working align closely with our own, forming the moral common ground that led to this collaborative feature.
Rather than directing attention outward toward products or trends, she invites her community into her own “backyard.” There, one is encouraged to listen to local birds, breathe in the scent of freshly cut herbs, feel the textures of flowers in bloom, and observe colours unfolding as the Sky Garden grows. What Pearypie hopes people feel after encountering her work is not pressure, but confidence. Confidence to try, to walk alongside her, and to carry that curiosity forward into their own lives.
“I want learning to feel joyful. Fun opens the door. Once the door is open, learning follows.”
Chapter IX: Widening the Circle of Care
Pearypie did not shed her identity to move into ecology. She expanded it.
“I did not have to stop being myself. What changed was the scale of my responsibility. (...) The transition was not about shedding my identity, but about evolving it. (...) Growth meant widening the circle of care, not changing who I am.”
Creativity taught her how to listen. Nature taught her how to slow down. Together, they shaped a practice rooted in intention, care, and continuity. And perhaps that is the "quiet power" of sustainability we spoke about earlier, but done with honesty. Nature does not demand perfection. It simply asks us to begin where we are.
A New Chapter: Pearypie's Creative Farm & Studio
Those who wish to continue following Pearypie’s journey are invited to do so at its natural pace—one shaped by care, learning, and commitment rather than spectacle. From the steady growth of the Sky Garden in Bangkok, to workshops that take root one masterclass at a time, her work continues to expand through practice rather than promise.
This path now opens toward a new horizon: the creation of a creative Farm & Studio beneath Doi Luang Chiang Dao. Conceived as a creative haven, it is a space where ethnobotany, tradition, and raw beauty reconnect—where plants are studied as teachers, materials as stories, and land as collaborator. From wildflowers to wisdom. From soil to soul. This is not a departure, but a continuation. Her expansion. A new chapter grounded in the same values as the Sky Garden - but much bigger.
Closing Notes From Pearypie To You, Our Reader...
"I want to thank Lucas Cruz Bueno and Green Embassy for the trust behind this collaboration. It is rare to have space for conversations that move beyond surface-level sustainability and into lived experience, learning, and long-term thinking, and I am deeply grateful to be part of this exchange. Thank you as well to everyone who has taken the time to read all the way through - your attention matters more than you might realise."
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Image credits: All images used in this article were provided by Amata “Pearypie” Chittasenee. Copyright and all associated rights remain with the author.
Written by Lucas Cruz Bueno
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