Jenny Kendler, an interdisciplinary artist and environmental activist, employs both textual and visual elements to challenge anthropocentric perspectives. Her project, Milkweed Dispersal Balloons, involved distributing milkweed seeds—vital for monarch butterflies—via biodegradable balloons, blending poetic symbolism with ecological intervention. Participants were invited to disperse the balloons in their communities, literally sowing the seeds of habitat restoration. Through such works, Kendler invites audiences to reconsider their relationship with the natural world, emphasizing interconnectedness and biodiversity (Kendler).

In the below image, Jenny Kendler hands one of her Milkweed Dispersal Balloons to a young participant at the Burchfield Nature & Art Center on July 12, 2015—photograph by Tom Loonan.