Emily Dickinson's Herbarium No. 7

Adapted from Emily Dickinson’s personal herbarium—a sixty-six-page leather-bound album containing 424 botanical specimens gathered near her home in Amherst, Massachusetts—this indigo-hued print honors the poet’s reverence for nature. She referred to her collected flowers as “beautiful children of spring,” arranging each with intuitive rhythm and visual balance. Printed using an archival pigment process on Hahnemühle German etching cotton rag paper, and presented in a black wash wood frame behind UV plexi.

Dale Goffigon is a photographer celebrated for her evocative images of historic architecture, interiors, and cultivated gardens. Working with a medium-format Hasselblad and collaborating closely with a master printer, she creates museum-quality archival pigment prints. Her recent projects include a series of botanicals realized as cyanotypes and pigment prints. Born on Virginia’s Eastern Shore, Goffigon earned a B.S. from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and refined her craft at the International Center of Photography in New York, the Maine Photographic Workshop, and the Center for Alternative Processes. Her work has appeared in Architectural Digest, Town & Country, Scala Regia, and The Redstone Book of the Eye.

Material: Hahnemühle German etching cotton rag paper
Finish: Archival pigment print in indigo
Frame: Black wash wood with UV plexi