In order to create mutual acknowledgement and accountability, A Recipe to Remove Your Lawn, invites the viewer to touch different kinds of matter that move animations of Monarda fistulosa (Bee Balm). The artwork recognizes how plants respond to their environment often through physiological changes. Here, the viewer touches different materials that cause plants to act out these physiological changes such as root growth, and phototropism. A Recipe to Remove Your Lawn creates a ritual where the viewer’s actions become a way of acknowledging how plants communicate with their environment.
