Butterfly Golf (2026)
Flowers, herbs, turf, PVC pipe, latex paint, in found raised bed planter with folding stool
~3’ x ~3’ x ~6’
In collaboration with d. Wright.

Pollinators are essential to biodiversity and global agriculture, yet declining from climate change, pesticides, and habitat loss. "Pocket gardens" offer them nectar and shelter as a way station in an otherwise bleak urban landscape. This mini-golf hole‚ planted with native Northern Illinois attractors like milkweed, Prairie Smoke, and Showy Goldenrods‚ playfully inverts the traditional relationship between decoration and green, centering the pocket garden and pressing the play area to one side. This gesture cedes space to plant-pollinator relationships that have evolved over millennia as models of mutual partnership and interdependence.

A companion zine with seeds and instructions for building your own pocket garden at home was available during the Lawn Open.