abortifacient
herbs, cedar, library, pamphlets, plywood, seed packets, soil
Current Locations:
Past Locations:
Current Locations:
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Goshen, VT, 2016-present
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Denniston Hill, Glen Wild, NY, 2020-present, in collaboration with Maureen Connor and Denniston Hill
- DeLand, FL, 2024-present
- The Soil Factory, Ithaca, NY, 2025-present
- Barnard College, New York, NY, 2025-2027
Past Locations:
- Queens Museum, Queens, NY, 2018
- SUNY Purchase, Purchase, NY, 2019-2021
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SPACE Gallery, Portland, ME, 2022
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Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria 2023-2024
Site-sepcific Installations
The Abortion Herb Garden, ongoing
A garden is an active site for care. The Abortion Herb Garden is a collaborative, research-based installation taking the form of planted gardens, movable carts, seed libraries, workshops, and printed materials. Planted exclusively with abortifacient, emmenagogic, and contraceptive herbs—plants historically used for contraception, birth control, and abortion—the project explores how plant knowledge, reproductive justice, and public participation intersect as forms of care and provocation.
Rooted in feminist and ecological inquiry, the work reframes gardens as living archives and agents of disruption, foregrounding lineages of dispossessed reproductive plant knowledge and the hegemonic forces that have marginalized plant medicine, discredited traditional practitioners, and undermined bodily autonomy.
Through its evolving installations and collaborations, The Abortion Herb Garden employs ecological and social practices to cultivate networks of care, resistance, and interdependence.
A garden is an active site for care. The Abortion Herb Garden is a collaborative, research-based installation taking the form of planted gardens, movable carts, seed libraries, workshops, and printed materials. Planted exclusively with abortifacient, emmenagogic, and contraceptive herbs—plants historically used for contraception, birth control, and abortion—the project explores how plant knowledge, reproductive justice, and public participation intersect as forms of care and provocation.
Rooted in feminist and ecological inquiry, the work reframes gardens as living archives and agents of disruption, foregrounding lineages of dispossessed reproductive plant knowledge and the hegemonic forces that have marginalized plant medicine, discredited traditional practitioners, and undermined bodily autonomy.
Through its evolving installations and collaborations, The Abortion Herb Garden employs ecological and social practices to cultivate networks of care, resistance, and interdependence.
