The following debossings are stories of paying attention; a fragile ongoing archive of disappearance, of transformation through shifting temperatures, species, and habitats. While each outline remains true to that plant's biological specificity, its shallow imprint is solely a shadow, an incomplete image of the vibrant complexity of absent organic body. Its loss further felt through its compressed silhouette; blossoms, leaves, stem, and roots flattened, still, and two-dimensional.

These images represent plant species from the geographic regions of New York and Minnesota, that are considered either extirpated (SX) regionally extinct, or an endangered historical species (SH) having not been recorded in 20-30 years. Each piece is based on a particular example from within the collections of the Liberty Hyde Bailey Herbarium at Cornell University, the New York Botanic Gardens C. V. Star Virtual Herbarium, or the Global Biodiversity Information Facilities website (GBIF).