The Cabaret of Plants - Botany and the Imagination Solidarity Bevin Kelley (Blevin Blectum)

Bevin Kelley (Blevin Blectum)

Raphaela Grolimund

where the theory of evolution by natural selection emerged alongside less celebrated concerns about mass extinction and climate change

author of Conceptual Art and the Politics of Publicity The specters of colonialism continue to haunt the current global order

and part of the roots of culture itself

The Cabaret of Plants - Botany and the Imagination Solidarity Bevin Kelley (Blevin Blectum)In The Cabaret of Plants, Mabey explores the plant species which have challenged our imaginations, awoken our wonder, and upturned our ideas about history, science, beauty and belief. Picked from every walk of life, they encompass crops, weeds, medicines, religious gathering places and a water lily named after a queen. Beginning with pagan cults and creation myths, the cultural significance of plants has burst upwards, sprouting into forms as diverse