Listening to Prairie: Conspiring With Plants

What does it mean to evade wide-spread agricultural cultivation? What does it mean to see plants as collaborators and to recognize the agency of non-human beings? This project is grounded in listening to plants, looking to them, and thinking with their call to place. Collaborating with the non-human co-inhabitants of Douglas County open space containing remnant prairie, with a special focus on native plants, Megan shares interactive, deep listening prompts, poems, and photographs geared toward opening our hearts towards sharing wonder and reciprocal love and joy with plants and other non-human co-inhabitants.

Project funded by: an Showcasing Open Space through Accessible Adventure (SOSAA) grant, funding from the Douglas County Heritage Conservation Council and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded Stories for All project at the University of Kansas’s Hall Center for the Humanities