The Pitfalls of Love | Botanicult Art - 5x7 Art Card

The Pitfalls of Love is a 5 × 7 illustrated art postcard from the Botanicult series, which considers women in botany and the questionable wisdom of getting too emotionally invested in plants.

Set against backgrounds of carnivorous plants and speculative botanical futures—including a Sarracenia patiently doing what it does best—this illustration reflects on devotion, danger, and the long tradition of women studying plants that are beautiful, powerful, and occasionally trying to eat them. The plants are not villains. They are simply doing what they do. 

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Printed on Hahnemühle German Etching Rag and designed to be mailed, framed, or quietly collected

Hahnemühle German Etching Rag is a beautifully textured, archival cotton paper that feels far more serious than this postcard intends to be, it is nonetheless designed to be mailed, framed, bookmarked, or kept somewhere safe until it suddenly feels relevant again. No special handling is required, and the paper will forgive most reasonable decisions.

Details

• Size: 5 × 7 inches
• Printed on Hahnemühle German Etching Rag
• Single illustrated postcard
• Part of the Botanicult series — No. 1 of 10
• From the Women in Botany collection
• Illustrated by Alyson Prokop