at-risk medicinal and edible plants

botanical illustration

the tending collection

Pacific Trillium

This is a part of a series of illustrations commissioned by Dr. Britt Wray to accompany in-person and virtual presentations for her book tour promoting Generation Dread: Finding Purpose in an Age of Climate Crisis. This book focuses on the human mental and emotional condition happening right now as we face the changing environment. 

This illustration reflects what Dr. Wray speaks about in her book about how public mourning and ritual are ways that we can process the loss that is happening during the environmental crisis. In her book, she tells a story of how Remembrance Day for Lost Species was founded, and the ritual surrounding the now extinct great auk.