Stay Out of My Garden No. 1 (Butterflies and Blooms Collection)

Description

Stay Out of My Garden No. 1 combines graffiti with botanicals in the most unexpected approach. Small, but impactful, it features, blooms, butterflies, bees and street art ephemera to create a vignette with a Victoriana flare. Incorporated into this work is a vintage medical etching of a woman’s reproductive system meant to be a vessel for the blooms to thrive in any condition. The underlying message is one of protest against the stripping away women’s rights to reproductive healthcare and complete body autonomy. Like other works, imagery is physically burnished into the surface of the panel in multiple stages intertwined with acrylic, pigment ink, spray paint and gold leaf to form a composed work of art that is uniquely individual blending nature with the urban landscape. This work is meticulously finished with hand-painted gold leaf elements, illuminating the delicate features of blooms and botanical contours. The sides of the panels are adorned with a radiant gold leaf treatment, lending a luminous quality to the piece.