The title Rattle the Teapot is meant to serve as a call toward change and an end to our colonial worldview. The title suggests an interruption, a noisy clatter to wake us up and invites conscious, responsible awareness of our relationship to nature. Old dolls, printed botanical fabrics and fake eggs represent my youth and familial history, but points to the many layers in which nature and ourselves have been replaced or mirrored through our constructed realities and technologies. The distinction between the real, the non-real, and representation have broken down, yet what of the Earth and the living systems that all life depends on?