Her Wrappings Rosa spp., Saccharum officinarum "I saw a beam of light, like the rays of the sun, shine down into my lap… I woke with a start as if from a deep sleep." Christine de Pizan, 1405 Photographs of Roses in sugar and heated #feministart #sapphicart #roses

Sweet and Light to the very Centre Rosa spp., Saccharum officinarum “I am called Lady Reason, so rest assured that you are in good hands.” The Book of the City of Ladies, Christine de Pizan, 1405. Trans. Rosalind Brown-Grant gabrielle-lewis.com/inside-city-ladies #feministart #sapphicart #NZ

The Romance of the Rose, c.1230. A dream-vision in which a male pursues a Rose behind a wall, and the most influential poem of the European Middle Ages quietly teaches a whole culture to view a Woman as a flower to be picked gabrielle-lewis.com/inside-city-ladies

My father gave me Narnia to read, he was an architect, a medievalist with a PhD in theology, and an author, he’d have read the architecture. I just got the rush: a mainline of Turkish Delight straight to the veins. Where he saw spatial theology, I tasted Enchantment and Danger.

Beautiful. Proud, Cold, Stern Rosa spp., Saccharum officinarum "…whoever glanced into her eyes, no matter how brazen they were, would feel afraid." Christine de Pizan, 1405 - the woman who took the medieval manosphere to court.

The brigade system is borrowed directly from military command. Rank, hierarchy, authority asserted through the cut. Prestige organised around death. Beta vulgaris as revelation rather than dominance. Light as relational condition rather than judgement. The body encountered rather than controlled.

Immersion observes how form responds to shifts in time and temperature — process rather than outcome, duration over resolution. gabrielle-lewis.com