At friezeofficial, a 45-foot herb garden is an unlikely, and highly effective, visualization of the threat to women’s reproductive rights:
and roll back women’s reproductive rights.
All of the plants in the site-specific display have traditionally been used for contraception and abortion. The collective planted them on a map of the U.S., over each of the 26 states where so-called trigger laws will immediately ban abortion once Roe v. Wade, which legalized the procedure, is overturned.
Realizing just how much green covers the installation is a terrifyingly effective visual of just how restricted women’s access to abortion stands to become.told Artnet News at the fair’s VIP preview. “At this point, I feel we have to say when Roe gets overturned, not if.”“I was around before Roe v. Wade, and I had a number of friends who had illegal abortions,” she said. “I kind of feel like what we’re going to see now is going to be a lot worse than what it was like back then.