The crucifixion of Peter is an interesting idea for the upside-down flowers.
I thought it might be because sometimes you have to bend the stalks the other way to flatten them for a herbarium specimen (I've had to do this myself on occasion), but if the individual drawing is a part of a larger symbolic whole, then it seems possible.
I guess we could even look at 1v the same way...
The root has always looked to me like a cross between a bear claw and a lump of fabric, coarse fabric. I thought fabric might mean a dye plant (like Hyperikon/Hypericum, which is used for the red dye in the leaves... note how half the leaves are red) but maybe it could additionally be a reference to a shroud or other cloth (like the cloak that was taken from Jesus to humiliate him or a temple veil as was depicted hanging from a rod by loops which in those days would probably be rope or fabric loops).
I thought it might be because sometimes you have to bend the stalks the other way to flatten them for a herbarium specimen (I've had to do this myself on occasion), but if the individual drawing is a part of a larger symbolic whole, then it seems possible.
I guess we could even look at 1v the same way...
The root has always looked to me like a cross between a bear claw and a lump of fabric, coarse fabric. I thought fabric might mean a dye plant (like Hyperikon/Hypericum, which is used for the red dye in the leaves... note how half the leaves are red) but maybe it could additionally be a reference to a shroud or other cloth (like the cloak that was taken from Jesus to humiliate him or a temple veil as was depicted hanging from a rod by loops which in those days would probably be rope or fabric loops).