Photo of the Day: Maui Wormwood, NY Botanical Garden, Bronx, NY

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.

Photo of the Day: ‘Heliconia Loop,’ NY Botanical Garden, Bronx NY

I came across this outdoor sculpture by Mark Chai while I was visiting the exhibit “Georgia O’Keeffe: Visions of Hawai’I,” at the New York Botanical Garden a few weeks ago. DCM Fabrication was responsible for translating Chai’s original wood model into the larger stainless-steel installation in this pool, shaped to suggest plants that the artist came across as a child in Hawaii, such as the heliconia.