This multi-layered exploration investigates the traces of the blue pigment through imperial trades, unraveling its complex ties to botany, colonial exploitation, and the cultural exchange that shaped global histories. Through narratives of the smuggling of a rare blue poppy to England, the Opium Wars, and the systemic discrimination against Chinese laborers in North America, her work reveals how imperialism influenced landscapes, labor histories, and geopolitical relations. Her work interrogates the material culture, emphasizing the ways in which minerals, and other natural resources were commodified through colonial processes.