nanila | Lesbians with unusually large vegetables

This wasn’t the post I was intending to make today, but having discovered the above on my phone whilst searching for something else from about a month ago, I felt I must share this with my Circle immediately. It is a series of three delightful photographs on display in the toilets (no really) of BOM, the Birmingham Open Media gallery. BOM is a little odd corner space a few tens of metres from one of the exits of New Street Station, over the road from an Adult Entertainment Shop (™?). It features tiny exhibitions celebrating “the intersection of art, technology and science”.

The caption for the photographs reads as follows.

Gemma Marmalade
The Seed Series, 2015

The Seed Series is a series of photographic prints by artist Gemma Marmalade, which explores the possibility that those of homosexual persuasion may be more likely to have a visceral impact on the cultivation of plants.

During studies of communal lesbian gardeners in the 1970s, German botanist Dr Gerda Haeckel observed accelerated growth, crop abundance and increased vegetational health. The Seed Series depicts some of Haeckel’s original subjects and their finest vegetable specimens.

Pardon the awkward angle of the photograph - it was not easy to take whilst holding a toddler who was frustrated at the thought that I was about to steal his dirty nappy and replace it with a clean one.

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Date: 2017-04-20 01:58 pm (UTC)

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rmc28

no subject

I suspect it's more the "communal gardening" and possibly the "without annoying men around demanding attention", than the sexuality itself. I propose some follow-up research using control groups of non-lesbian communal gardeners.

Date: 2017-04-20 05:24 pm (UTC)

ironed_orchid

I offer my proposed Queer Cat Lady Commune as study sample, once I find some people to start it with me.

Date: 2017-04-20 08:19 pm (UTC)

nanila

I suspect it's more the "communal gardening" and possibly the "without annoying men around demanding attention", than the sexuality itself.

I would add an emphatic +1 to this correlation (as opposed to the one drawn in the caption). Also I volunteer to participate in a control group.

Date: 2017-04-20 04:53 pm (UTC)

novel_machinist

This made me happy. XD

Date: 2017-04-20 08:21 pm (UTC)

I'm so glad. It made me happy too. :D

Date: 2017-04-20 05:23 pm (UTC)

This is an excellent photo series and I feel more research needs to be done.

I agree on both counts. (The lady with the leek is my favourite.)

Date: 2017-04-20 06:59 pm (UTC)

antisoppist

I could test and see whether the marital rhubarb is less lusciously sprouting now that I am no longer tending to it, but if it does turn out that rhubarb can tell whether its gardener is a lesbian or not, I wish it had told me earlier.

ETA: Truly not a euphemism

Edited Date: 2017-04-20 07:00 pm (UTC)

Date: 2017-04-20 08:25 pm (UTC)

More data on this important research topic would be grand. I would encourage you to do this test, and also to cultivate a rhubarb at your new place. Taking a saucy photograph with one of its stalks is optional, but a bonus.