What is the concept of “plant blindness”? How can the arts help us to appreciate different timescales and plants’ ways of being?

What is the concept of “plant blindness”? How can the arts help us to appreciate different timescales and plants’ ways of being?
This blog post is an excerpt drawn from my thesis where I foreground the life and curatorship of Dr. Dorothy Newton Swales (1901-2001), the first woman to curate the McGill University Herbarium.
“I have a bit of a provocative question for Taylor.”
Oh no. Here it comes.
“Have you ever done ayahuasca?”