i am an old phenomenon

© Ann Shelton
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cornflower-3500px_iamanoldphenomenon@annshelton — The loss of the oracle (cornflower, Cyanus, bluebottle, bluet, bluebow, blue cap, bachelor’s buttons, hurtsickle), 2022. Archival giclée print on Hahnemühle bamboo, 840 × 1119 mm.

hellebore — Food of injury and madness (hellebore, christe herbe, christmas rose, melampode, melampodium, black hellebore, lenten Rose), 2024. Archival giclée print on Hahnemühle bamboo, 840 × 1119 mm.

morning-glory-3500px_iamanoldphenomenon@annshelton — She thinks the plants (morning glory, bindweed, hedge bindweed, convolvulus), 2022. Archival giclée print on Hahnemühle bamboo, 840 × 1119 mm.

nettle — Between nettle, needle and net, (commom nettle, wergulu), 2024. Archival giclée print on Hahnemühle bamboo, 840 × 1119 mm.

sloe-07-3500px_iamanoldphenomenon@annshelton — She addressed the tree with the respectful name (sloe, sloe berry, blackthorn, spiny shrub, Mother of the Wood, wishing thorn), 2022. Archival giclée print on Hahnemühle bamboo, 840 × 1119 mm.

plantain-vertical-3500px_iamanoldphenomenon@annshelton-srgb — Lady of the dead and King of the road (broad-leaved plantain, snake plantain, black plantain, long plantain, plantago, ribble grass, ripple grass, ribwort, waybread, waybroad, slan-lus, snakeweed, cuckoo’s bread, englishman’s foot, white man’s foot, herb ivy, buck’s horn, buckshorne, hartshorn, black Jack, Jackstraw, buck’s tongue, goat’s tongue, lamb’s tongue, sheep’s tongue, sheep’s herb, hen plant, cocks, wendles, kemps, quinquenervia, costa canina, lækeblad, læknisgras, herb of Prosperpina, arnoglossa, five-vened), 2023. Archival giclée print on Hahnemühle bamboo, 840 × 1119 mm.

hawthorn-3500px_iamanoldphenomenon@annshelton — They served things ground to soil (hawthorn, hagthorn, may, mayblossom, may tree, whitethorn, quickthorn, huath, haw, hazels, gazels, gazels, halves, ladies’ meat, bread and cheese tree), 2022. Archival giclée print on Hahnemühle bamboo, 840 × 1119 mm.

feverfew-3500px_iamanoldphenomenon@annshelton — Just like her grandmother’s grandmother (feverfew, featherfew, featherfoil, feddygen, fenyw, flirtwort, mother’s herb, mutterkraut, Santa Maria, bachelor’s buttons, grande chamomile), 2022. Archival giclée print on Hahnemühle bamboo, 840 × 1119 mm.

birch-3500px_iamanoldphenomenon@annshelton — Sweeping her rooms and sacred places (birch, white birch, beithe, bereza, berke, bouleau, Lady of the Woods, Mother Tree), 2022. Archival giclée print on Hahnemühle bamboo, 840 × 1119 mm.

roots-02-3500px_iamanoldphenomenon@annshelton — All the herbalists and I are root diggers (roots, root diggers, wortcunners, root men, root maids), 2022. Archival giclée print on Hahnemühle bamboo, 840 × 1119 mm.

calendula-annshelton-liscenced-for-media-use-only_1 — All the hours of the day (calendula, marigold, pot marigold, marsh marigold, Marygold, Mary and gold, Mary-budde, fleur-de-Marie, oculus Christi, fiore d’ogni mese, golde, golds, ruddes, solis sponsa, solsequia, poor man’s saffron), 2023. Archival giclée print on Hahnemühle bamboo, 840 × 1119 mm.

achillea-3500px_iamanoldphenomenon@annshelton — And as she said thanks and spoke spells (yarrow, yarroway, yerw, gearwe, field hop, achillea, archillia, old man’s pepper, devil’s nettle, devil’s plaything, bad man’s plaything, sanguinary, soldier’s woundwort, hundred leaved grass, thousand seal, thousand weed, carpenter’s weed, milfoil, millefolium, knight’s milfoil, knighten milfoil, nosebleed, herbe militaris, staunchweed, wild maiden herb, schafgarbe, bloodwort), 2022. Archival giclée print on Hahnemühle bamboo, 840 × 1119 mm.

larkspur-3500px_iamanoldphenomenon@annshelton — Loss paving the way for her new enclosure (larkspur, lark’s claw, lark’s heel, lark’s toe, knight’s spur, delphinium, dolphin flower), 2022. Archival giclée print on Hahnemühle bamboo, 840 × 1119 mm.

datura-brugmansia-3500px_iamanoldphenomenon@annshelton — On certain days or nights she anoints a staff and rides (brugmansia, datura [misleading], huacacahu, trumpet flower, angel’s trumpet, snowy angel’s trumpet, angel’s tears), 2022. Archival giclée print on Hahnemühle bamboo, 840 × 1119 mm.

elder-3500px_iamanoldphenomenon@annshelton — Once upon a time forest floor (elder, black elder, common elder, sweetelder, boor tree, bore tree, elderberry, elder bush, pipe tree, bour tree, bore tree, old ladybore tree, old gal, lady elhorn, elder mother, hylder, hylantree, hollunder, hildemoer, eldrum, elhorn, sureau, witch’s tree), 2022. Archival giclée print on Hahnemühle bamboo, 840 × 1119 mm.

rose — Rose Title TBC, 2024. Archival giclée print on Hahnemühle bamboo, 840 × 1119 mm.

goldenrod-annshelton-liscenced-for-media-use-only_1 — She consolidates wounds (goldenrod, solidago, wound weed, heathen woundwort, unsegenkraut, verge d’or, goldruthe, woundwort, Aaron’s rod, wunderkraut), 2023. Archival giclée print on Hahnemühle bamboo, 840 × 1119 mm.

ginger-3500px_iamanoldphenomenon@annshelton — She could lie on her back and sink (ginger, imbir, Asian ginger, zingiber), 2022. Archival giclée print on Hahnemühle bamboo, 840 × 1119 mm.

fly-agaric-3500px_iamanoldphenomenon@annshelton — Shine even into its darkest winter (fly agaric, witch’s egg, devil’s egg, the holy mushroom), 2022. Archival giclée print on Hahnemühle bamboo, 840 × 1119 mm.

mugwort-annshelton-liscenced-for-media-use-only_1 — The oldest wort (mugwort, felon herb, Una, Artemisia, St. John’s plant, cingulum sancti Johannis, chornobylnik, beifuß, besenkraut, fliegenkraut, gänsekraut, Johannesgürtelkraut, jungfernkraut, sonnenwendkraut, weiberkraut, werzwisch, wilder wermut, wisch), 2023. Archival giclée print on Hahnemühle bamboo, 840 × 1119 mm.

rowan-3500px_iamanoldphenomenon@annshelton — Tied together with red thread (rowan, moon tree, mountain ash), 2023. Archival giclée print on Hahnemühle bamboo, 840 × 1119 mm.

apple-3500px_iamanoldphenomenon@annshelton — We thank you for the gift to decide the fate of man from birth (apple), 2022. Archival giclée print on Hahnemühle bamboo, 840 × 1119 mm.

marsh-mallow-annshelton — A healer’s name, (marshmallow, sweet weed, mallow, mallards, mauls, ketmia, schloss tea, cheeses, mortification root, white mallow, altheia), 2025. Archival giclée print on Hahnemühle bamboo, 840 × 1119 mm.

persimmon-img_annshelton — Aligning physical appearance with gender identity (persimmon, american persimmon, common persimmon, date plum, eastern persimmon, sugar plum, possumwood, winter plum, possum apples, fruit of the gods, kaki or sharon fruit), 2025. Archival giclée print on Hahnemühle bamboo, 840 × 1119 mm.

chicory-annshelton — All the blue flowers follow the sun, part 1 (chicory, succory, blue sailors, coffeeweed, wild succory, blue daisy, blue dandelion, blue sailors, blueweed, bunk, coffeeweed, cornflower, hendibeh, horseweed, ragged sailors, succory, wild bachelor’s buttons, and wild endive), 2025. Archival giclée print on Hahnemühle bamboo, 840 × 1119 mm.

rocoto-chilli-annshelton — Burning and cleansing (chilli pepper, aji, axi, achi, hot pepper, cayenne pepper, bird’s eye chilli, and bird pepper), 2025. 840 × 1119 mm.

betony-annshelton — Trade your coat for betony (betony, wood betony, common hedgenettle, purple betony, bishopwort, or bishop’s wort, hairy nette, devil’s plaything), 2025. Archival giclée print on Hahnemühle bamboo, 840 × 1119 mm.

bergamot-annshelton — The queen excluder (bergamot, bergamont, bee balm, wild bergamot, number six, oswego tea, horsemint), 2025. Archival giclée print on Hahnemühle bamboo, 840 × 1119 mm.

siberian-motherwort-annshelton — The appearance of a Lion (Siberian motherwort, honeyweed and marihuanilla, little marijuana, or sibirisches herzgespann –- German for Siberian heart’s delight, lion’s ear, Siberian lion’s tail), 2025. Archival giclée print on Hahnemühle bamboo, 840 × 1119 mm.