The Botanical Record
Everything encoded. Everything remembered.
Each piece earns a Codex string — a line of shorthand that functions like a plant's passport. Here is what it contains.
The Codex made visible — every abbreviation, one object
When the botanicals were gathered. Summer 2025. A plant gathered in high summer carries different light than one taken in early spring.
The named collection this piece joins. Garden Phoenix. Each collection has its own lineage and conversation.
The setting: gold, silver, bronze, or copper. The metal is not decoration — it is the piece's second skin, chosen for what it does to the light inside.
The shape of the frame that holds the resin — oval, round, teardrop, rectangle. The frame is the first word the piece speaks.
Every flower, herb, or plant material present in the piece, coded by abbreviation. Rose. Hydrangea. Lavender. The full recipe.
Which part of the plant: petal, stamen, anther, filament, stigma, stem, leaf. A petal and a stamen from the same flower behave entirely differently under resin.
How the botanicals were preserved before setting — pressed, hung-dried, dehydrated, silica-cured. The method shapes everything that follows.
Flat, shallow, medium, or deep. The depth of the pour determines how the piece catches and holds light — whether it feels like a window or a well.
What was done to the botanical before setting: left whole, broken into pieces, hand-crushed, shattered, or ground. Each transformation changes the conversation the plant is having.
Gold leaf, copper dust, glass balls, metallic glitter — the additions that are not the plant itself but are part of the world the plant lives in inside the resin.
