Abortifacient Glass Prints

The frit de verre monoprints in this collection represent the six abortifacient plants highlighted in the data that inspired this show. 'Frit de verre' is the process of making objects out of glass powder without the use of a liquid binder. To make these, Caitlin harvests the plants and presses them into clay slabs while still fresh. Then she makes a positive from the clay using either wax or alginate, and makes a plaster-silica mold from the positive. When the plaster is cured, she sifts glass powder over the mold and fires it in a kiln, which results in radically fragile plant impressions, another way to study the marks they make. Gossypii Radicis Cortex Root Print,  Zingiber officinalis Root Print Angelica spp. Root Print  Actaea racemosa Root Print  Petroselinum crispum Print Artemesia vulgaris Print Actaea racemosa Leaf and Stem Print