Sex Education From Flowers
2019
This series is in homage to the nineteenth-century feminist Elizabeth Wolstenholme-Elmy who wrote a book for children titled Baby Buds. It also references The Language of Flowers. These were nineteenth-century books that assigned a symbolic meaning to each flower. By giving or receiving flowers one could communicate a coded message to another without breaking any of the strict verbal Victorian taboos of the time. Elizabeth Wolstenholme-Elmy went further pushing the boundaries of what was considered proper by using Carl Linnaeus’ scientific system of identifying flower parts in relation to human sex organs. Baby Buds, a book about botany was actually created as an underground way of educating young children about sex education through the study of botany.
See the Jan 1, 2020 article about this series https://www.dekunumag.com
24”X16 1/2” Archival Pigment Prints
Edition of 10
$950. each