Pick Your Poison
2017
The 19th-century belief in Darwin’s hypothesis that women were "the weaker sex” divided men and women in society into separate spheres. A woman’s sphere was in the home as a wife and mother. In this series, each woman is enclosed in a sphere, and each sphere contains a plant. I use botany in many of my series. Women were allowed few opportunities to pursue interests outside of their sphere. Botany and botanical illustration were permitted as long as it was used to confirm the existence of God and not a scientific study. The plants in this series are all poisonous. I use poisonous plants as a metaphor for entrapment. Though beautiful, these plants are trying to hold these women "in place".
Edition of 10
24 x 16 1/2 “Archival Digital Prints
$ 950.ea.