The formal scientific name for this flowering plant
from the aster family is Artemisia mauiensis. Whatever you
want to call it, I thought it was striking enough to photograph it when I went
to the New York Botanical Garden
over a month ago.
It must have struck Georgia O’Keeffe with special
force when she visited Hawaii on a nine-week journey in 1939. Everything in the
world was farther apart and so much more exotic back then, an impression
reinforced through every image and every letter from the artist in the Botanical Garden’s fascinating exhibit
about it.
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