Mary Tremonte created this print during her Queer Ecology Hanky Project residency at Eureka! House in July, 2021. Inspired by a plant walk with herbalist Mandana Boushee, she carved a linoleum block with poison ivy, wrote text by hand, and risograph printed it in seafoam green and metallic gold ink on bright fluorescent green paper!
This print is about the power of setting boundaries and about listening to the plants. It is about changing our relationships to plants and place. About overthrowing the idea of non-native plants as being "invasive" and recognizing that they didn't just come here, that through colonization and invasion, plants came along without their habitats, pollinators and predators and taking up space is their way to survive.
