Progressing with one of the ideas I have for the earth section of this drawing, turning it green. Originally inspired by the Voynich manuscript, while I was working on this I came across some photos of bromeliads and canistrum orchids which bear a resemblance to Voynich illustrations. The top photo is a bromeliad, beneath that a canistrum orchid. Next to them are the Voynich images they remind me of, and at the bottom a Binky Voynich-type drawing. Like many people, I have often speculated upon the mysterious document's meaning, but while I was working on a little set of Binky sketches based around Voynich images last year I had two thoughts: one was that it seems to me there may have been more than one artist working on the book due to slight differences in the style of drawing, but that aside I felt there was a type of innocence about the illustrations which suggested they had been made from description without ever having seen the plants. If the Voynich manuscript was some kind of a medical/alchemical Herbal written during the time of the Italian Renaissance, coinciding with the Medical Renaissance, there would definitely have been a lot of interest in plants such as bromeliads and orchids because of their their medicinal properties. Perhaps there was a great uncle explorer writing home from abroad about all these wondrous botanical discoveries? Speculate on ...
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Dissolving PeopleA symbol on the footpath outside a local primary school gradually disappearing as the image breaks up and wears away until eventually it is obliterated by leaves and barely discernible. Photographed at intervals of several months between February 2021 and November 2022, oldest at the top.
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