Inside the City of Ladies / Rosa spp., Saccharum officinarum examines a misogynist tradition that runs from medieval allegory to the contemporary manosphere, and the grammar of poetic and personified allegory through which it works. Capitalisation marks the crossing, where an abstraction becomes a named force, on the principle that language does not merely reflect social reality but actively produces it. The series works with roses submerged in refined sugar, the components of Turkish Delight, both holding a complicated and extensive history of power and control. The images function as a visual counter-narrative, directly subverting and reappropriating the source text to reclaim the concept from a distinctly female perspective.
Printing and materials
Each work is produced as an archival pigment print (giclée) using museum-grade pigment inks on 100% cotton Hahnemühle Photo Rag fine-art paper (300–315gsm).
Prints are supplied unframed.
Inside the City of Ladies / Rosa spp., Saccharum officinarum examines a misogynist tradition that runs from medieval allegory to the contemporary manosphere, and the grammar of poetic and personified allegory through which it works. Capitalisation marks the crossing, where an abstraction becomes a named force, on the principle that language does not merely reflect social reality but actively produces it. The series works with roses submerged in refined sugar, the components of Turkish Delight, both holding a complicated and extensive history of power and control. The images function as a visual counter-narrative, directly subverting and reappropriating the source text to reclaim the concept from a distinctly female perspective.
Printing and materials
Each work is produced as an archival pigment print (giclée) using museum-grade pigment inks on 100% cotton Hahnemühle Photo Rag fine-art paper (300–315gsm).
Prints are supplied unframed.
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