Through Sunday, February 8 – Looking at Leaves
Photography exhibition at the Harvard Museum of Natural History by Amanda Means. The dramatic photographs are a monument to the remarkable diversity and beauty of nature’s botanical forms. Means’ fascination with botanical images over the last twenty years is, in part, scientific. The leaves she works with reflect lives lived in the wild, whether in the rain forest or in Central Park. Some show cracks. On others you can see the pathways of insects as they ate their way across the surface. Some reflect the evolutionary history of plants, from the Peacock Plant’s more primitive pattern of parallel leaf veins to the leaves of later plants with brancing veins – relecting how the plants evolved a more efficient way to transport water and nutrients through the leaf’s surface. 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, open 9-5. Admission $9, seniors and students $7. For more information log on to www.hmnh.harvard.edu.
