Suzanne Treister
2014-15

HFT The Gardener

HFT/Outsider artworks

Drawings by Hillel Fischer Traumberg made under the influence of the outsider artist Adolf Wölfli and psychoactive drugs, depicting 92 psychoactive plants, listing their traditional uses, effects, preparation, common names and molecular formulae, with each plant's corresponding FT Global 500 companies, based on hebrew/gematria numerical equivalents of each plant's botanical name.

Coloured pencils and watercolour on paper
each 21 x 29.7 cm



Acacia maidenii (Maidens Acacia) Acorus calamus (Sweet Flag) Amanita muscaria (Fly Agaric) Anadenanthera colubrina (Cebil)

Argyreia nervosa (Woodrose) Ariocarpus fissuratus (Hikuli Sunamé) Atropa belladonna (Deadly Nightshade) Banisteriopsis caapi (Ayahuasca)

Boletus kumeus (Nonda) Brugmansia arborea (Angel's Trumpets) Brunfelsia chiricaspi (Chiricaspi) Cacalia cordifolia (Matwœ)
Caesalpinia sepiaria (Yun-Shihi) Calea zacatechichi (Zakatechichi) Cannabis sativa (Marajuana) Carnegiea gigantea (Saguaro)

Cestrum laevigatum (Dama da Noite) Claviceps purpurea (Ergot) Coleus blumei (El Nene) Conocybe siligineoides (Teonanacatl)


Coriaria thymifolia (Shansi) Coryphantha compacta (Bakana) Cymbopogon densiflorus (Esakuna) Cytisus canariensis (Genista)


Datura innoxia (Toloache) Datura metel (Datura) Datura stramonium (Thorn Apple) Desfontainia spinosa (Taique)


Duboisia hopwoodii (Pituri) Echinocereus salmdyckianus (Pitallito) Epithelantha micromeris (Hikuli Mulato) Erythrina americana (Colorines)


Galbulimima belgraveana (Agara) Heimia salicifolia (Sinicuichi) Helichrysum foetidum (Straw Flower) Helicostylis pedunculata (Takini)

Homalomena (Ereriba) Hyoscyamus niger (Henbane) Iochroma fuchsioides (Paguando) Ipomoea violacea (Badoh Negro)

Justicia pectoralis (Mashihiri) Kaempferia galanga (Galanga) Lagochilus inebrians (Turkestan Mint) Latua pubiflora (Latué)


Leonitis leonurus (Lion's Tail) Leonurus sibiricus (Siberian Lion's Tail) Lobelia tupa (Tupa) Lophophora diffusa (Peyote)

Lycoperdon marginatum (Gi'-i-Wa) Mammillaria craigii (Wichuriki) Mandragora officinarum (Mandrake) Maquira sclerophylla (Rape dos Indios)


Mesembryanthemum expansum (Kanna) Mimosa hostilis (Jurema) Mitragyna speciosa (Kratom) Mucuna pruriens (Cowhage)

Myristica fragrens (Nutmeg) Nicotiana rustica (Nicotine) Nymphaea ampla (White Water Lily) Nymphea cerulea (Blue water lily)


Oncidium cebolleta (Cebolleta) Pachycereus pecten-aboriginum (Cawe) Panaeolus cyanescens (Copelandia) Pancratium trianthum (Kwashi)



Pandanus (Screw Pine) Papaver somniferum (Poppy) Peganum harmala (Syrian Rue) Pelecyphora asselliformis (Peyotillo)



Pernettya furens (Taglii) Petunia violacea (Shanin) Peucedanum japonicum (Fang-K'uei) Phalaris arundinacea (Reed Grass)

Phragmites australis (Common Reed) Phytolacca acinosa (Shang-La) Psilocybe semilanceata (Liberty Cap) Psychotria viridis (Chacruna)

Rhynchosia longeracemosa (Piule) Salvia divinorum (Hierba de la Pastora) Scirpus (Bakana Sc) Scopolia carniolica (Nightshade)

Sida acuta (Malva Colorada) Solandra brevicalyx (Kieli or Kieri) Sophora secundiflora (Mescal Bean) Tabernaemontana coffeoides (Sanango)

Tabernanthe iboga (Iboga) Tagetes lucida (Yauhtli) Tanaecium nocturnum (Koribo) Tetrapteris methystica (Caapi-Pinima)


Trichocereus pachanoi (San Pedro) Turbina corymbosa (Ololiuqui) Virola calophylla (Epená) Voacanga africana (Voacanga)


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