Let no man steal your thyme

In a time when women’s rights over their own bodies face renewed repression, Sophia Zobel’s project reclaims suppressed botanical knowledge once preserved through whispers and household gardens.
What was once dismissed as witchcraft; gardens of rue, pennyroyal, and wormwood were in truth sites of care and quiet defiance, where women cultivated autonomy from the ground up. These plants, long used for reproductive freedom, root the work in an embodied history of resistance.

From this living garden grows a first series of 10 re-imagined amulets, reminders that what once flourished in secrecy should now bloom in the open air and act as an amulet of self-determination.