OPUNTIA FABULATE

Opuntia Fabulate began with the prickly pears Rockefeller lived among in Texas.

Cactus forms are transformed into fantastical flora, moving from botanical specificity toward a freer, dreamlike abstraction — the genus’s basic vocabulary of paddle, spine, and fruit reworked into species no field guide would recognize.

The mock-Linnaean title names the method: fabulate, to fable. These are sculptural fictions — a working catalog of desert plants that do not exist.