Flora C. Mace (along with her partner Joey Kirkpatrick) devised a way to deconstruct living plant forms—leaf by leaf, petal by petal—encasing each element in a glass composite to preserve its shape and color. The artists then rebuild the plant from its component parts, preserving it intact in a slab of hot glass. The work reflects histories of naturalists preserving flower specimens, depictions of blooming flowers in still life paintings, and the union of creativity and science in glass.