Aunt Lisa's Vintage Herbarium Prints

My Aunt Lisa created this Herbarium in college in 1973.  She foraged them as part of a class assignment from local parks, roadsides, forests and river bluffs near the University of Missouri.  

Recently I've been noticing more "real" botanical collections known as an Herbarium.  Instead of their perfect lithograph counterparts, I've been attracted to the real anatomy of preserved plants and flowers - just like these.  When I came across them again, I saw them with fresh eyes, inspired by their sheer existence (50 years old) and by examining them - little glimpses of surviving color, delicate petals still intact, fuzzy textures and brittle stems.  

I've photographed each one to further preserve them. I've added stylized labels with her notes - now you can see where Lisa Rolls collected these exact specimen in 1973 and on which hillside.  These botanicals are prints of the original printed on textured heavy fine art paper ready to be framed.