What's mine is yours
What's mine is yours revisits the historical notion of paradise as the primordial home of humans, a utopian sanctuary in which existence is harmonious, timeless, full of all things fair and good that the earth can bring forth.
The classical themes of this paradise garden, such as the enclosure, cultivation, use of water, odor and fruit, freegrowing plants, the evenness of plantation, have been reinterpreted to challenge perception and to contemplate on what paradise looks like today.
Plant species from all continents symbolize our earthly paradisum and thrive in formally arranged pots and man-made combinations in sunken beds and scaffold walls. Letters on pots are arranged in phrases to evoke thoughts and meanings.
An ideal state exists only at the moment of erection, then immediately transforms through public interaction as visitors are invited to move, change, and take plants.
The conjunction of creation, destruction and preservation will evolve into something new, spontaneously (un)ordered, and leave an illusion of it's original self. As the plants spread throughout Québec, lives are enriched and the non-utopian paradise uncovers.
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