“Garlic, Poppies + Anise Hyssop" cropped femme-style t-shirt
My “Garlic, Poppies + Anise Hyssop” drawing on a femme-style black crop-top.
Screen-printed locally in Minneapolis by Afternoon Printing!
4 oz./yd², 60/40 combed ring-spun cotton/polyester
Meets S&S Sustainable Materials & Socially Conscious Manufacturing criteria
Continuing on with my series of "plant bouquets" is another illustration featuring poppies, anise hyssop, and more garlic. I often turn to plants and their medicine/symbols during the darkest periods of life to process grief. I wanted to make a new piece about Jewish/Palestinian solidarity which I am currently using to raise money for folks trying to leave Gaza.
In the context of Jewish plant medicine, garlic is associated with life-affirming protection, ancestral healing, and Jewish diaspora.
Palestine's red Poppies symbolize the relationship between Palestinian life and relationship to the land, martyrs lost to 76 years of violent occupation,
Anise Hyssop has roots in Kabbalah plant medicine and is associated with purification rituals. According to Jewitches, “When the Israelites were to paint blood over their door posts to protect them from the angel of death claiming the firstborns, it was the plant hyssop that they were instructed to use. Its protective uses are lauded to this day.”
Special thanks to Jewitches and Dori Midnight for sharing ancient wisdom about Jewish plant medicine.
My “Garlic, Poppies + Anise Hyssop” drawing on a femme-style black crop-top.
Screen-printed locally in Minneapolis by Afternoon Printing!
4 oz./yd², 60/40 combed ring-spun cotton/polyester
Meets S&S Sustainable Materials & Socially Conscious Manufacturing criteria
Continuing on with my series of "plant bouquets" is another illustration featuring poppies, anise hyssop, and more garlic. I often turn to plants and their medicine/symbols during the darkest periods of life to process grief. I wanted to make a new piece about Jewish/Palestinian solidarity which I am currently using to raise money for folks trying to leave Gaza.
In the context of Jewish plant medicine, garlic is associated with life-affirming protection, ancestral healing, and Jewish diaspora.
Palestine's red Poppies symbolize the relationship between Palestinian life and relationship to the land, martyrs lost to 76 years of violent occupation,
Anise Hyssop has roots in Kabbalah plant medicine and is associated with purification rituals. According to Jewitches, “When the Israelites were to paint blood over their door posts to protect them from the angel of death claiming the firstborns, it was the plant hyssop that they were instructed to use. Its protective uses are lauded to this day.”
Special thanks to Jewitches and Dori Midnight for sharing ancient wisdom about Jewish plant medicine.
My “Garlic, Poppies + Anise Hyssop” drawing on a femme-style black crop-top.
Screen-printed locally in Minneapolis by Afternoon Printing!
4 oz./yd², 60/40 combed ring-spun cotton/polyester
Meets S&S Sustainable Materials & Socially Conscious Manufacturing criteria
Continuing on with my series of "plant bouquets" is another illustration featuring poppies, anise hyssop, and more garlic. I often turn to plants and their medicine/symbols during the darkest periods of life to process grief. I wanted to make a new piece about Jewish/Palestinian solidarity which I am currently using to raise money for folks trying to leave Gaza.
In the context of Jewish plant medicine, garlic is associated with life-affirming protection, ancestral healing, and Jewish diaspora.
Palestine's red Poppies symbolize the relationship between Palestinian life and relationship to the land, martyrs lost to 76 years of violent occupation,
Anise Hyssop has roots in Kabbalah plant medicine and is associated with purification rituals. According to Jewitches, “When the Israelites were to paint blood over their door posts to protect them from the angel of death claiming the firstborns, it was the plant hyssop that they were instructed to use. Its protective uses are lauded to this day.”
Special thanks to Jewitches and Dori Midnight for sharing ancient wisdom about Jewish plant medicine.