The Garden Keeps the Score explores the botanical practices of enslaved Africans in the Gulf Coast of Texas, using plant scans and oral history to build counter archives rooted in care, opacity, and refusal. Through imperfect, tactile documentation and objects like a rotting log that tells a family story of healing, I honor Black ecological memory and ancestral knowledge. This series queers the Western archive, centering plants as vessels of resistance, relation, and survival.