"The teucrium is a feathery gray leaf and then it has little lavender ... Lanier said her mother liked to draw floral bouquets, because unlike her abstract artworks, plants are real living things.

The art of creating leaf skeletons has been around for centuries, as far back as the Ming Dynasty period in China. The book "The Phantom Bouquet: A Popular Treatise on the Art of Skeletonizing ...

Sage has revived a lost Victorian art and raised it to a new level ... "I have a collection of vintage stereographs depicting leaf bouquets that surrounded photos of the departed.

"The teucrium is a feathery gray leaf and then it has little lavender ... at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art on April 30. The pictured bouquet was gifted to the artist by Anni Albers ...