Herbarum is a visual manuscript of encrypted botanical knowledge—seven canvases composed as standalone folios, each bearing the marks of secrecy, ritual, and symbolic transmission. Inspired by the mystique of the Voynich manuscript, the work employs undeciphered glyphs, mirrored scripts, and star-like sigils to evoke an otherworldly herbarium—one unconcerned with taxonomy and devoted to meaning as mystery.

Each panel operates as a page in an imagined codex, resisting linearity and welcoming reconfiguration. The symbols suggest communication not through language, but through memory, pigment, and arcane association. Like the Voynich itself, Herbarum offers no easy translation—only a sense that its knowledge is intact, if inaccessible.

Part of Jenkins’s Secret Codes series, Herbarum proposes that plants, like manuscripts, can speak in languages formed through reverence, concealment, and transformation. It is a study not in identification, but in encryption—where the act of seeing becomes an act of interpretation, and interpretation a ritual.