Unravelling Frequencies

Due to copyright restrictions, the artist is unable to display two articles in their entirety. Instead, she presents the most relevant excerpts as follows:

Menotoxic Tulips

In the 1920s, four centuries after Paracelsus, a Swiss physician, declared menstrual blood to be one of nature's most toxic substances, Dr. Béla Schick and his colleagues conducted experiments to demonstrate the presence of harmful toxins in the blood of menstruating women. Despite extensive research spanning until the late 1970s, medical professionals in the United States and Europe failed to conclusively prove this theory. Although menotoxins have been used to explain various women's health issues throughout the 20th century, most modern doctors no longer consider this theory valid, though it still persists in some alternative medicine circles. Today, menstrual blood is viewed as a valuable resource for stem cell research aimed at treating neurodegenerative disorders.

The artist's reproduction of this experiment, using blood drawn from her arm vein on the first day of menstruation, revealed that the tulips in vases containing her 'menotoxic' blood survived the longest. The slideshow contrasts the experiment's documentation with images of plants known to actually produce trimethylamine, the toxin allegedly produced by menstruating women: Chenopodium vulvaria, Mercurialis perennis, and Berberis.