“My practice as a curator and art educator and my larger aim to decolonize as a way to promote social and environmental justice serve as a starting point for this research. With anecdotes on work experiences, I reflect on the possibilities and outcomes of taking vegetal characteristics as methods for teaching and curating. Through historical and theoretical research, I contextualize these ideas further. With the addition of exercises that integrate the addressed methods, I invite the reader to join and practice these vegetal qualities in activities. 

The Vegetal Curator thinks with plants and artworks activated by exercises to find courage, inspiration, and materials to imagine multispecies muddles, stay with the trouble, and decolonize. 

I approach plants as agents and witnesses of decoloniality—not as tools but as teachers and companions in unlearning coloniality and relearning forms of storytelling, listening, imagination, reciprocating, and queering. I advocate for a move from rationality to relationality. Within this relationality, it is crucial to understand social issues in their environmental context and vice versa.”