Shell Ginger
The exotic Variegated Shell Ginger, Alpinia zerumbetthat, is a harbinger of spring in New Orleans. A personification of the city’s decadent beauty that is lush with life. Many of these works incorporate collaged copies of my maternal great-grandmother’s diaries from the late 1920s - 30s. They are mostly an accounting of the day’s activities but evoke a way of life and division of labor that is fascinating and foreign to my life of modern technology. The women in my family, always strong and industrious, help me find my footing in my familial roots.