Poly blastus; P.acinus, et al.

Donyland Herbarium & Wunderkammer Collection
Limited edition of 20 (each one unique)
Approx. size: 17.5cm x 17.5cm x 3.5cm

This double-sided piece is part of the Donyland Herbarium & Wunderkammer Collection, created in a limited edition of twenty – no two are the same.

On the front, two tiny shelves hold thirteen glass bottles, each containing seeds collected from the old farm where I live. These seeds – found in hedgerows, meadows, pathways and pockets – have been lovingly gathered, sorted and preserved as if for study.

But this is not a scientific herbarium. It is something more curious, more playful.
Each bottle is labelled in what I call layman’s Latin – names I have created based on the seeds' personalities, appearances or where they were found.

One label reads:
127 – Abundantia aeneus eneus sperma
"Abundance of bronze seeds" (from the dock plant – or “Doc seeds” as I have always called them).

Turn the piece around and you will find the full list of names, each one telling its own quiet story. Some sound like spells, some like inventions, all drawn from a deep love of language, land and the overlooked.

This is an imaginary classification – a tribute to the act of naming, collecting, and holding things still for just a moment longer.