Artist: Joyce Campbell
Title: Sarsaponin from Yucca
Date made: 2006-2007
Print type: Silver gelatin fibre based print from Ambrotype (contact print)
Print dimensions: 38.5 x 38.5 cm
Edition: 2/5
Notes: Signed and dated on verso. Used to treat arthritis, bursitis & gout and to lower cholesteral. Shows anti-tumour activity against melanoma in mice. Steroidal saponins are detergent and surfactant, used to seperate mined ore and prepare photographic emulsion, lipstick & shampoo and to put the head on root beer. Sarsaponin added to livestock feed absorbs ammonia to mitigate the stench of hog farms & battery hens and may reduce production of the greenhouse gas methane in cattle. Yucca flowers are blanched and eaten in omelets in El Salvador. Contains a durable fiber with which the Zuni people first clothed themselves when emerging from the underworld in to this world of light.
Series notes: From the L.A. Botanical series