Historically, plants have been part of resistance movements, communicating freedom and liberation. Plants were used to map significant places along the Underground Railroad. Okra (ngombo in Bantu) traveled the Middle Passage as seeds braided into the hair of the enslaved, then was planted in colonized soil. Its bright yellow flowers became beacons of hope and survival for other trafficked people. It is said that those enslaved in the Americas could remember their homeland through the flowers that waved to them on foreign soil.

Resistance takes many forms. In these works, it appears in hidden messages, coded colors, and imagined landscapes carrying the possibility of escape, connection, and care.