The first puppet for a performance that reflects on the shadow side of the work of early ecologist/entomologist/artist, Maria Sibylla Merian, who travelled from Amsterdam at age 52 to Suriname to observe and draw plant and insect relationships. She is celebrated by feminists and ecologists, and her exquisite artwork is admired worldwide. But there are troubling aspects to her work (and to much of the scientific endeavors that took place during that era of slavery and colonial subjugation of native populations.) She relied on slave labor to collect specimens and was assisted in identifying plants by a native woman she took back to Amsterdam, a woman who is never given the dignity of a name in Merian’s writings.