HORTUS TOXICUS

 
     

These works are an imagined botanical response to the historic use and dependence on petroleum products. The individual species are proven phytoremediators of motor oil, but as illustrated here, they have evolved and self-hybridized into a foray of fictional flora, growing out of and around vintage motor oil containers.

Kari Englehardt

Around the World Phyto: Mirabilis jalapa Mimosa pudica Cyperus rotumdus
Color pencil on Stonehenge 300 gsm hotpress acid free cotton paper
16”x12”; unframed