Orange Killer Boot
2020
Colored Pencil on Stonehenge White cotton paper
9 x 12 inches
The name references the flower of the beautiful and deadly angel's trumpet plant, known for its heavenly evening scent and large pendulous, trumpet-shaped blooms. This can be one mean plant. Eating the flower causes TERRIFYING hallucinations, loss of any connection to reality and even death. One man cut off his penis and tongue under the influence of one cup of tea brewed from the plant. Several South American indigenous cultures have used the plant mixed with maize beer and tobacco leaves "to drug wives and slaves before they were BURIED ALIVE with their dead lord." Watch out.
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