Connie Zheng

A very abridged history of plant migrations, mixed media on Yupo paper

2020

 

A very abridged history of plant migrations is a mixed-media cartographic drawing (available as a downloadable poster or high-quality print for sale) that attempts to trace the origins — and migratory movements — of important food staples in the US over the past 500 years, highlighting the ways in which the violent history of colonization and globalization are embodied in the humble diasporic seed, and the ways in which agricultural and geopoliticall histories have always been intertwined.