Colonial epistemology deposited plant knowledge into taxonomies and institutions and called this preservation.

What it could not understand, it declared primal information. Except knowledge that lives in the hands, in the voice, in the passing of a method between bodies in dance, that knowledge was never meant to be collectively understood.

Embodied transmission is the form of knowing. Our work begins there.

The violence of colonization and forced displacement has been narrated as erasure.

A before and an after with nothing legible in between. Though we could never be separated from our inner worlds world. We carry it, reroute it, plant it somewhere new, and call it something the colonizer doesn’t recognize.

The presence of Central and West African plant knowledge inside Caribbean bush medicine, Southern root work, and Black folk tradition is the evidence of people naming their world under conditions designed to silence them.

THUTH reads those transformations as the primary text.

Western botanical science positions the researcher above the plant as observer and object.

Subject and specimen.

THUTH operates from a different ontology: the plant is a thinking, relational entity with its own intelligence and its own history of relationship with human communities.

To engage the plant only through extraction, of data and utility, is to reproduce the same logic that extracted people. Ceremony, preparation, and sustained relationship with plant matter are the methodology.