Maggie Nowinski, Panacea, 2024. Pen, ink & gouache on paper, 44” x 30” Courtesy of the Artist
PANACEA
2024. Pen & ink, gouache on paper, 44” x 30”
Panacea was inspired by the UMass Herbarium, the Vertebrates Collection, and the living greenhouses at the Morrill Science Building. Specimens include: Daucus Carota, Silybum Marianum, Sarracenia Minor, Metroxylon Vitiense, Athyrium Filix-Femina, Nepenthes, Zingiberaceae, Echinacea, Asplenium Rhizophyllum, Symplocarpus Foetidus, Valeriana Officinalis, Ricinis Communis, Stillingia Aquatica, Asplenium Platyneuron, Welwitschia Mirabilis, Ovis Canadensis, Ovis Dalli, Daypus Novemcinctus, Physeter Macrocephalus, and more. This “impossible plant” was also created with a poetic appreciation for Goethe’s Urpflanze.
(common names: wild carrot, stinging nettles, hooded pitcher plant, lady-fern, carnivorous tropical pitcher plant, ginger, cone flower, walking fern, skunk cabbage, valerian, castor bean, corkwood, toothleaf, spleenwort, tree tumbo, bighorn and thinhorn sheep, armadillo, juvenile sperm whale, wood peckers)