another response to Laura's quote of Bacon about "torturing Nature" -- Remedios Varo's marvelous (in a strict sense!) painting about an adept playing with nature:
Armonia (1956)
of course, we sit on both sides of the magic staves, composing the musical patterns of our knowledge together with our projections of ourselves into the world, reading that diffracted patttern of ourselves as "la natura."
maybe we can maintain that playful spirit with respect to our plants -- and permit them to play with us? the suggestions (toby et al) about letting plants clamber on a chair so that we would have to negotiate seating with them (it)...
i would love someday to see tendrils from the grid or even from the floor... maybe ozone video can play timelapse back days later as dreams outgassing the speeded-up "memories" of what the plants have been doing over the previous time-window of say 24 to 72 hours, projected onto the floor or the ceiling....
even simpler, maybe just record the sunlight itself plahying against the floor or wall, and then projecting it back in dark times or dark months.
or at the scale of one day: video record sunlight through some water tanks, then re-project it at night -- or simply read sunlightr that passes through a water tank, via a photocell or set of photocells, then playing that back (speeded up?) as intensity levels for lamps in the lab.