Datura
Can plants hear us? Can they respond? When talking about school shootings next to a plant closely associated with death, might she remind you of her presence in the room and choose just that moment to drop hundreds of poison seeds into your outstretched hand? It’s impossible. But all the same, the pod split open and confirmed what many witches, herbalists, and indigenous people have know for a long time: the plants talk back.
In India, it is said Datura sprouted from Shiva’s Chest, but she’s been in the Americas so long, I wonder if Shiva gave birth here. Called tolohuaxihuital and toloatzien by the Aztecs, she calmly walked human sacrifices to their deaths. She was there at Jamestown and wreaked havoc among unsuspecting colonists who gathered her for food, killing many. This earned her the names Devil’s Trumpet and Jimsonweed. Today, still used for medicine, divination, and love spells as she has done for ages, she grows in our gardens. watching. listening.
Oil, Acrylic, and Charcoal on Canvas
30” by 64”
2019
Rachel Aurora
Free shipping in the continental United States.
Please allow 2 weeks for shipping.
All sales are final. If you’d like more photographs, please contact me.
Can plants hear us? Can they respond? When talking about school shootings next to a plant closely associated with death, might she remind you of her presence in the room and choose just that moment to drop hundreds of poison seeds into your outstretched hand? It’s impossible. But all the same, the pod split open and confirmed what many witches, herbalists, and indigenous people have know for a long time: the plants talk back.
In India, it is said Datura sprouted from Shiva’s Chest, but she’s been in the Americas so long, I wonder if Shiva gave birth here. Called tolohuaxihuital and toloatzien by the Aztecs, she calmly walked human sacrifices to their deaths. She was there at Jamestown and wreaked havoc among unsuspecting colonists who gathered her for food, killing many. This earned her the names Devil’s Trumpet and Jimsonweed. Today, still used for medicine, divination, and love spells as she has done for ages, she grows in our gardens. watching. listening.
Oil, Acrylic, and Charcoal on Canvas
30” by 64”
2019
Rachel Aurora
Free shipping in the continental United States.
Please allow 2 weeks for shipping.
All sales are final. If you’d like more photographs, please contact me.
Can plants hear us? Can they respond? When talking about school shootings next to a plant closely associated with death, might she remind you of her presence in the room and choose just that moment to drop hundreds of poison seeds into your outstretched hand? It’s impossible. But all the same, the pod split open and confirmed what many witches, herbalists, and indigenous people have know for a long time: the plants talk back.
In India, it is said Datura sprouted from Shiva’s Chest, but she’s been in the Americas so long, I wonder if Shiva gave birth here. Called tolohuaxihuital and toloatzien by the Aztecs, she calmly walked human sacrifices to their deaths. She was there at Jamestown and wreaked havoc among unsuspecting colonists who gathered her for food, killing many. This earned her the names Devil’s Trumpet and Jimsonweed. Today, still used for medicine, divination, and love spells as she has done for ages, she grows in our gardens. watching. listening.
Oil, Acrylic, and Charcoal on Canvas
30” by 64”
2019
Rachel Aurora
Free shipping in the continental United States.
Please allow 2 weeks for shipping.
All sales are final. If you’d like more photographs, please contact me.