This colorful curiosity vial is an exhibition in the tiny details between the leaves, and a flower’s cyclical, patient quest for water, minerals, and sunlight. Its specimens include globe amaranth, sea lavender, and baby’s breath flowers, old man’s beard lichen, globe amaranth petals, as well as tumbled rutilated quartz and amber.

Globe amaranth: immortality

Sea lavender: beauty, sympathy, remembrance, “I miss you”

Baby’s breath: everlasting love, purity, innocence

Old man’s beard: traveler’s joy, healing properties

Rutilated quartz: illuminator of the soul, spiritual growth, let go of the past

Amber: courage, balance emotions