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Datura 3

Roxy Paine

Object Label

In his diverse body of work, Roxy Paine often deals with nature and artifice, particularly the tension between natural processes and the constructed environment. Encased in a glass box with a wooden floor and frames, the replica of a Datura plant in this piece has been domesticated. With leaves half-devoured by insects, it looks deceptively harmless—and still quite beautiful—in its decaying state. Nevertheless, the Datura is a dangerously poisonous plant. It contains scopolamine and atropine, which in very low doses can be used both as medications and as powerful hallucinogens, transporting the user to otherworldly states of consciousness. Yet, an overdose of these substances is fatal.

Caption

Roxy Paine (American, born 1966). Datura 3, 2006. Thermoset polymer, oil, lacquer, epoxy, wood, glass, 19 x 29 1/2 x 32 in. (48.3 x 74.9 x 81.3 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift in honor of Charlotta Kotik, from the Contemporary Art Council and her colleagues at the Brooklyn Museum, with additional funds given by Mr. and Mrs. Henry Christensen III, Lillie R. DeBevoise, Zoe and Joel Dictrow, Lizanne Fontaine and Robert Buckholz, Mr. and Mrs. James R. Marshall, Dr. Margaret B. Nuzum, Mr. and Mrs. David W. Puth, Elsa and Marvin Ross-Greifinger, Hannelore B. Schulhof, Belle Tanenhaus, Dr. and Mrs. Richard J. Wagman, Jill C. Weinstein, Dr. Elissa Weinstein and Mark Weintraub, 2007.18. © Roxy Paine.

Gallery

Not on view

Title

Datura 3

Date

2006

Medium

Thermoset polymer, oil, lacquer, epoxy, wood, glass

Classification

Sculpture

Dimensions

19 x 29 1/2 x 32 in. (48.3 x 74.9 x 81.3 cm)

Credit Line

Gift in honor of Charlotta Kotik, from the Contemporary Art Council and her colleagues at the Brooklyn Museum, with additional funds given by Mr. and Mrs. Henry Christensen III, Lillie R. DeBevoise, Zoe and Joel Dictrow, Lizanne Fontaine and Robert Buckholz, Mr. and Mrs. James R. Marshall, Dr. Margaret B. Nuzum, Mr. and Mrs. David W. Puth, Elsa and Marvin Ross-Greifinger, Hannelore B. Schulhof, Belle Tanenhaus, Dr. and Mrs. Richard J. Wagman, Jill C. Weinstein, Dr. Elissa Weinstein and Mark Weintraub

Accession Number

2007.18

Rights

© Roxy Paine

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Roxy Paine

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