Botany Manor project
–aims to heal people by generating imaginary plants nurtured by tears (rain) and rage (heat) around campus.
Initially, I wanted to draw a botany manor with different species of plants that the species alters when one more person sheds a tear somewhere on campus (the humidity rises).
(concept & drawings) 
As I kept receiving new responses, I decided to turn this into a long-term project that I might continue to work on outside of classes. I built an Instagram account to share my progress at @botany_manor_project.
Progress 1/5 :
I started by building a Google form to collect students’ answers about where they have cried or felt the most anger on campus. Then, I put up posters that made people feel connected. You can scan the QR code to respond to the questionnaire. (because of the composed quality in this blog, here is a link portal to the questionnaire: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1QfbcDt1-UpAkVhqyhcXMltU05ip1_-VyOQkLtycZb2I/prefill
Progress 2/5:
I have received many (over 80 so far) responses, and out of curiosity, I opened up an option for people to share their cry/ rage stories. The replies are interesting as they gathered the negative emotions that students my age would typically have.
The result shows that Snell/ Curry Student Center area has seen the most emotional expressions from students. The most anger/ rage scenarios happened in Snell and Ryder Hall.
Progress 3/4:
I realized that to accomplish this goal, I would have to program and do a lot of coding. Although I do not think I have the coding skills to do that, I found this website–https://pollinator.art/about/living-artworks— to implement the garden as a final result for the project.
I arranged the flowers according the overall layout of the buildings on Northeastern Campus. The website allows me to plant different plant and the flowers should be representing the environment created by the data from the questionnaire. Most of the Rain (tears) and Heat (rage) contributes to the Ryder/ Snell areas so the flowers on the according places are the highest on the lawn because of the nutrition and resources they got.
One day my friend told me that there is a post about my poster in Ell hall and people are discussing it on Reddit. It is nice to see my project got attention from my peers. The purpose of the project is to make people relate and helpfully be healed by the garden.
