#1299: Reorienting Cartographies: Painting with Plants as a Decolonial Mapping Practice

This mixed-media mapping piece layers leaf-based pigments with tracing paper drawings of local infrastructures to challenge the assumed neutrality of cartographic tools. The plant pigments foreground land and the more-than-human world, while the infrastructural overlay visually “murks” these relations, mirroring how dominant maps overwrite ecological orientations. Drawing on sociocultural and decolonial theories of learning, the work reframes mapping as a relational practice that reorients viewers toward land-centered ways of knowing