MEDICINAL PLANTS | painted tapestry

This piece explores the quiet tension between what is controlled and what grows on its own. Wild medicinal plants and so-called “invasive” animals weave through a landscape of cultivated greens and lemons, gently disrupting the neat order. It speaks to an inner conflict many of us know well — the pull between instinct and refinement, chaos and clarity. We carry both the animal and the divine within us: a part that longs to break free and another that seeks form, meaning, and structure. When we lean too far in one direction, we begin to crave the other. “Medicinal Plants” invites us to stop trying to resolve that tension — and instead, to live with it. To see beauty in the return of the wild, in the healing that happens not in spite of disorder, but through it.
media: 180 x 250cm, acrylic on loose canvas. Wooden beams at top and bottom for easy hanging.