Details: 4x6" Giclee Print, Matte Photographic
 
Featured botanical:  Pokeberry (wildcrafted during late summer)
 
Energetic connections: A beloved poison path teacher, Poke is powerful! Used in many healing traditions of Native indigenous, African American, Chinese, Ayurvedia folk medicine ~ due to its wide range of applications from use as food, medicine, ink, dye, paint and more. ALWAYS worked with cautiously, for good reason.
 
"As a medicine, it is a potent and concentrated substance that, like the light side of "The Force", can effect powerful healing. However, like the dark side of "The Force", if used incorrectly, poke can harm, even kill..." -Michele E. Lee, Working the Roots
 
Cyanotype is one of the oldest photographic processes we know of, and has a distinctive blue color. Cyanotypes are made by treating a surface — paper or fabric — with iron salts which then react to UV light. Originally used to document botanical specimens by placing them on treated papers and exposing them to the sun, it was also an early way to create copies of drawings – thus the name “blueprints.”