Jen Scheuer

Artist Statement

Much of my work is based on The Doctrine of Signatures. This is a historical theory that proposes that the world has an order that can be revealed through visual and sensory associations. Thus, plants can inform us how to use them because they look like our bodies (i.e. cloves look like teeth and can relieve a toothache). Elements of this theory of observation can be seen in medicinal and spir¬itual practices of different cultures and through different periods of history. Our minds seek to make connections, to categorize the familiar and unfamiliar.