Paradox of perception
Paradise has long been imagined as the vision of our reward, of what was lost - the destination of our departure. The garden seeks to confront such a paradigm in a paradoxical fashion. Abandoning the notion that paradise is perfection, the garden is a grid of plants constructed from artefacts of waste (plastic bags) aligned along the north-south axis. The focal point; two living walls nestled within the center of a fluid plastic vortex symbolize the shifting gyre of waste choking our oceans. A path of recycled mulch; gray encircling blue suggests currents. Continual use of the garden organically disperses the delineation; exemplifying the shifting tangle of waste. From an island of destruction, paradise is reborn. Moving through the garden, ones perception continually changes, shifting between the artificial and the natural, a seeming imbalance yet a summons to the paradox - paradise as we see it.
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