"The Secret of Silphium"
Added 2025-05-14 17:18:22 +0000 UTCGouache, watercolours, and charcoal on art paper, 28 cm. wide.
Loosely themed around Silphium, a damningly-unknown medicinal plant which was universally traded in the ancient world, and used among other things as a contraceptive and abortifacient. Indeed, Silphium may have made the apparent sexual permissiveness of the antique world possible in the first place.
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