At Pagoda of the Ancient Muse we believe we're all connected, everything alive and not alive; every living being, every soul and all dead material that actually isn't dead to us. The universe connects us, we are made of the same particles, we are of the same source, the same energy and as such: we are that energy, parts of a big network.

This means we respect our environment of which we are part and do whatever possible to avoid pollution and compensate for the pollution we cause.

As an example: Acrylics are no longer in use for paintings, there's still art made with acrylic present but no new art is made with acrylics and no acrylics are being bought.
To apply alcohol inks, felt is used; the standard felt coming with the tools is not real felt, it is made of plastic microfibers. Those are all replaced with real felt of wool, where possible from sources that are really sustainable, we also make more and more of our own application felt from wool from local sheep who sure are not exploited, like the sheep of our neighbours.

Traditional Art is usually already very sustainable as it uses natural resources and everything possible is home- and handmade.

We always look for other, better ways to work more sustainable and admit we always can do better.