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Poison Garden issue #1: Purpose of Poison has arrived
* Limited Edition *
Death Meditation Giclée Prints
Originally released in 2022, these archival giclée prints have been brought back from the vault by special request for a limited run.
Each poison plant is paired with one of the Nine Contemplations on Death from the Buddhist teacher, Atisha. Individual 7"x7" prints feature datura, foxglove, destroying angel, pokeweed, wolfsbane, belladonna, holly, fly agaric, and poison hemlock.
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Death Meditation Cards
Pairing these contemplations with the wisdom of poisonous plants is a natural fit - who better to learn about death with than plants that can easily induce it? It's only been in the last 100 years or so that we've been taught to fear, avoid, and exterminate these plants. And it's a similar story for how we handle death. As we push these subjects to the margins and decide they are taboo, we are doing ourselves a disservice. Death is inevitable and it's time to repair our relationship with it.
Poison Garden Issue #1: Purpose of Poison
For the Poison Garden’s first undertaking, we've explored the idea of poison itself
What we found is that the purpose of poison depends on who is centered in its story
It's a complex topic that changes with each shift in perspective. And it takes on many roles as ritual, as decay, as preservative, as heritage, as psychedelic, as environmental language. We’ve looked at poison in the hands of humans, within the landscapes that surround us, and even deep in the collections of a museum. We've seen how the very poison that can take a life is also the same one that can heal.
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