Rebecca Louise Law
Rebecca Louise Law
Herbarium
Medium: dried flowers, copper wire • Where you will see it: Visitor Center
Artist statement: “Volunteers at the Chicago Botanic Garden have spent the past year collecting and preserving individual specimens from across the grounds for this site-specific installation. This artwork is dedicated to the Garden and its people, admiring all it does in the conservation of nature. Our relationship with nature has never been as fragile as it is today—we need these spaces to appreciate all we still have.”
About the artist: Rebecca Louise Law is best known for her colossal installations created with natural materials, namely flora. Since 2003, Law has collected flowers and remnants left by the flowers, using—and reusing—them in installations in the United States, Europe, Australia, and Asia.
