Vienna Dioscorides Series
2023
The Vienna Dioscorides series recontextualized the historic role of a needlework sampler, while reflecting on the importance of maintaining plant diversity, not only for individual health, but healthy communities and ecosystems. Rather than collect and preserve stitches and patterns, I preserved ancient medicinal plants using free-motion embroidery. Several of the plants depicted in the illuminated herbal manuscript, the Vienna Dioscorides (512 AD), are still known to us today. These plants create a connection to this ancient text, linking past to present.