Sticker for Plant Time (by Nikki Lindt)

"Plant Time" by Natasha Bowdoin. Artwork for the loanword "Plant time," from the book An Ecotopian Lexicon, www.ecotopianlexicon.com. /// As anthropologist Charis Boke writes in "An Ecotopian Lexicon," "How can plants change minds? Herbalist students cultivate connections to plant time as part of their training in learning about medicinal plants and health, both human and ecological. They learn to embody human obligations to environmental others by “getting down to plant time.” Sitting with plants in the garden shift students’ encounters with the world, as medicinal plants become sensible creatures and active collaborators. In this way, “getting down to plant time” is an embodied sensory practice. It takes time to learn and requires repetition. The iterative nature of many sessions of sitting with plants builds bodily attunements that enable attention and care across biologies." /// In her Artist Statement, Natasha Bowdoin writes, "In my drawing “Plant Time,” I envision a landscape that is forever changing, subsuming humanity into the world around us. We dissolve within a meadow, forest, swamp, or desert, acquainting ourselves with our plant counterparts in a more deeply felt, sensory way." /// For more artwork by Natasha Bowdoin, go to www.natashabowdoin.com.