why India Flint?

So I'm dyeing these bits of silk, and I assume it will yield improving results as I experiment more -- but I wonder what the purpose should be? As much as I love India Flint, I know there must be some observers who see only muddy clothes and yard-stains when they look at her work. That's unfair to her aesthetic, to her years of research, but I feel there must be some justification -- for my endeavor, this woman here in Minnesota (so far away from the eucalyptus of Australia). A rationale -- why should I go to the trouble of dyeing fabric with organic matter? Why should anyone care what it looks like when leaves mold on a piece of cotton? Flint buries her cloth in the compost heap and digs it up months later, to transform what must be a smelly rag into an amazing work of fabric art. Is that profound or just obscure? Is it too precious, too close to the trends of "green living?"
"India Flint is known for the development of the highly distinctive “ecoprint,” an ecologically sustainable plant-based printing process that evolved through combining Latvian dye traditions with Shibori-zome from Japan. She completed an MA researching eucalyptus dyes in 2001."  

I'm not a "biter" - not a person who is ordinarily susceptible to trendy ideas. But I loved the sight of those stained silk strips on the clothesline in my studio, and I totally fell for the look of Flint's "Landskins" when I first beheld their wholly organic, process-driven sensuality. I'm inspired by her, and everyone seems to love her latest how-to, EcoColour. 
If I mention onionskins in a dye class there are invariably a couple of people who will pipe up and tell me that they ‘did’ onionskins in the seventies and that they really weren’t all that exciting. I beg to differ. Onion skins are one of the most versatile sources of dye color yielding tones ranging through yellow, ochre, tan, burgundy, lime green, olive green and black depending on the water quality and the composition of the vessel used. Not bad for a humble papery substance casually discarded in the preparation of food. The traditional Latvian use of onion skins to color Easter eggs led me to the discovery of the ecoprint; a low impact ecologically sustainable dye method that imparts color to cloth by direct contact.
Terrific slideshow of her work here. It is gorgeous. And I am enthralled by the real-time, decaying, evolving nature of the work in all its impermanence. Is it rational? Is it important?
Click HERE for an interesting article in SDA's online forum about the world of natural dyes.