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Item Open Access Please Don’t Pick the Wildflowers(Alfred University, 2024) "Poucher, Gabriel John"; "Briggs, Paul S"; "Green, Nicki"; "Hanes, Stephanie"; "Kelleher, Matt"; "McConnell, Walter"; "Sikora, Linda""What does ecology look like in the Anthropocene? In urban areas, crows and magpies have begun repurposing anti-roosting spikes as nesting material. Certain species of microbes have evolved the ability to break down and digest plastic, in response to its ubiquity in the environment. The COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdown disrupted human infrastructure, but also caused notable changes in nonhuman ecosystems over a relatively short period of time. Here, the natural and the artificial become enmeshed: what does nature mean in a landscape where the organic is outweighed by synthetic material? The world is brimming with entanglements: literal and theoretical spaces in which apparently disparate systems intersect, interrupt, and transform one another. The disruption of familiar systems can feel apocalyptic - metamorphosis is sometimes uncomfortable, but always necessary. My written thesis addresses these uncertain boundaries and provides a personal and theoretical framework that serves as a supporting document for please don’t pick the wildflowers. This body of work reflects on the transmogrification of natural and artificial systems, and takes an ecological, queer, and posthumanist view that collapse is not a parameter for failure, but the foundation of radical transformation."