[BSW] Alice in the Post: Botanical illustration is becoming endangered

[KATHY BILTON]

Via Pat Ford:

Botanical illustration is becoming endangered, but the job is essential -

She doesn’t spend much time with this vista; as the Smithsonian’s botanical
illustrator, her gaze is on plants, dried specimens of dead plants, up
close, and closer, under a microscope.
 
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/home/botanical-illustration-is-becoming-endangered-but-the-job-is-essential/2020/01/28/24636724-3dff-11ea-8872-5df698785a4e_story.html