LA Botanical...

"...is an ongoing project, massive and perhaps unachievable in its full potential scope, to document each plant that grows in Los Angeles for which there is a documented use -- be it food, medicine, weapon, abortive, analgesic, fuel, stimulant, building material, deadly toxin or mind-altering entheogen. The plants are documented as wet-plate ambrotypes, an anachronistic photographic form ubiquitous during the 1850s to 1890s, the period during which Los Angeles grew from a dusty town of 1400 inhabitants to a major metropolitan center.

"The project is an attempt to reconcile Joyce Campbell's own rural background with her life here in Los Angeles, one of the most sprawling and unsustainable metropolises on Earth.

The exhibition will be featured from May 19 until June 23, 2007, at Gallery 727, 727 S. Spring Street, Los Angeles.