We spent the day at the New York Botanical Garden enjoying the scent of fall in the air when we came across these striking objects called, Ghost Plants.
Conceived of by the artist Ebony Patterson after studying extinct plants during her residency at the William and Lynda Steere Herbarium, Patterson created glass blown, white, haunting, and yet beautiful versions of these extinct plants and then placed them alongside living plants in garden beds. You’ll find a photo of these Ghost Plants at on-emotions.com.
These Ghost Plants were so visually captivating it took me a few moments to realize they were of course not alive or rooted, but placed there by someone and so could easily be removed.
Then the thought occurred to me, we all likely have a few Ghost Plants in our lives – memories of people or events that exist alongside that which is living.
But like Patterson’s creations in the Herbarium, we do have the power to remove them if we wish. Some Ghost Plants we might want to keep around and have beside us. But others, perhaps, not as much. These we might want to keep extinct and to not bring back into the gardens of our lives.
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