This article focuses on encounters with plant art. Plant art is approached in ways that aim at opening up and articulating lived intertwinings between the human and the nonhuman worlds. In these encounters, I examine the active agency of living plants in art, and ask what are the possibilities of plant art to affect its viewers and challenge the anthropocentric view of the world. In other words, this article explores the affective power of plant art – its potential to provoke change. First I encounter Raimo Saarinen’s Martyrs (2019), which displays living tulips – tied down with shackles – in a gallery space. I suggest that these twisted, distressed plants that fight for their lives appeal to the viewer’s emotions and sense of empathy. Seco...