Map of Reciprocity began as an exercise of asking for permission. I approached friends and strangers asking for access to dye plants on their property.  I used the plants to dye silk for this “map” of Lawrence, KS. While making I considered the ways in which our lives are entangled with plants and animals as well as humans. For instance, one of the plants used, pokeberry, is almost exclusively spread by birds who eat the berries. Often humans do not want these plants in their yard and find them a nuisance. However pokeberry keeps coming back because of its collaboration with birds. Through the process of asking and natural dyeing with local plants I was placed in community with the human and more-than-human others around me.