Plant Witch: Birch Bramble Reed was accepted into the Fairbanks Arts Association juried show “Entanglements” this spring. The First Friday reception is this week, Friday April 1, from 5-7 pm. It will be on exhibit in the Bear Gallery through the end of April and available for purchase through the gallery.
Warp: Hand dyed long staple Supima cotton warp
Weft: Hand dyed rose viscose weft
Inlays: linen/mohair and Pima cotton
The ogham inlays in the piece represent birch, bramble, and reed for beginnings/new growth, harvest, and renewal..
The ogham for birch - beithe, symbolizes beginnings and new growth. It’s the joy of baby sprouts, of digging into still cold earth to plant this year’s crops, it is the hope and optimism of the beginning of the growing season.
The ogham for bramble - muin, symbolizes harvest, fruitfulness, and feasting. It’s perhaps the most iconic and eagerly anticipated phase of the garden’s cycle, providing the #plantwitch with ample opportunity to relish in their baskets and buckets and handsfull of produce.
The ogham for reed - ngetal, symbolizes renewal and healing, it stands in here for the fallow season of the garden after the lasts of the harvests.
Plant Witch represents the magic of growing things: seeds unfurling deep underground at Imbolc, sprouting at Ostara, blooming at Beltane, growing through Litha, harvesting at Lammas, preserving the bounty through Mabon, and deepening the compost at Samhain.
Tending a garden, cultivating houseplants, chatting with wild plants, befriending plant allies. Food and flowers and medicine and dye.
