Map of Reciprocity, Kirsten Taylor

Map of Reciprocity began as an exercise of asking for permission. I approached friends and strangers asking for access to dye plants on their property. I used the plants to dye silk for this “map” of Lawrence. While making it I considered the ways in which our lives are entangled with plants and animals as well as humans. For instance, one of the plants used, pokeberry, is almost exclusively spread by birds who eat the berries. Through the process of asking and natural dyeing with local plants I was placed in community with the human and more-than-human others around me.