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    Ghost Orchids - Artist talk by Siobhan Healy

    Ghost Orchids - Artist talk by Siobhan Healy Image gallery

    Presented by Harvard Museum of Natural History at Harvard Museum of Natural History

    December 2, 2011

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    In this sculpture display in the museum’s Glass Flowers gallery, Scottish artist Siobhan Healy creates a subtle and thought-provoking piece inspired by the Ghost Orchid (Epipogium aphyllum), a rare British wild flower recently rediscovered after it was thought to be extinct for 23 years. Healy depicts the orchid in transient and ethereal clear glass, encouraging the viewer to reflect on the potential loss of this fragile species—an evocative emblem of the one in five of wild flowers that are threatened with extinction.


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        Harvard Museum of Natural History

        26 Oxford Street
        Cambridge, MA 02138

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        Free with museum admission.

        Info Phone: 617.495.3045

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        Dates:
        December 2, 2011

        Times:

        4:00 pm

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