Dafna Kaffeman, an Israeli artist, is known for her ethereal evocations of place, which some refer to as “micro-environments.” Her flame-worked glass botanicals—delicate pieces reminiscent of the Blaschka glass flowers at Harvard—are presented in assemblages that include text and imagery embroidered on fields of felt. “I like the ambiguity of [glass],” Kaffeman has said, “that it can depict very fragile and complex shapes like plants and insects.” It took time, however, for her to understand “how to use it as a means of expressing my ideas.” Those ideas have to do with history and culture—the way a wildflower, or a potato beetle, can pull up collective memory and powerful emotion. —L.J.