Being isolated at home for months during the pandemic made me realize how I craved nature, and the houseplants often overlooked in my house suddenly became my dearest companions. Yet as much as we acknowledge the importance and benefits plants have on humans, we still tend to view them as objects rather than living beings, hardly considering the impact the lockdown had on them. As a result, many houseplants were unable to be evacuated at the start of the covid out- break and died of negligence behind locked doors.

To challenge this human-centric view of nature and explore the symbiotic relationship between humans, our domestic environment, and houseplants, a series of experiments were conducted where furnishing patterns were generated using plants’ electrical signals. The outcome includes a speculative animation featuring a changing wallpaper pattern in response to the withering of a bouquet of lilies, and a video of human-plant interaction through electric signals.