Veil Garden
This project examines the history of the paradise garden through the use of traditional elements of architecture and landscape. By exploring and exploiting the interface between the two to reimagine the paradise garden.
This reinterpretation of an ancient garden form is updated to speak to contemporary life. The spiritual sustenance of the four elements is metaphorically represented; reconnecting the viewer to the basic necessities of life, and exposing the beauty of a raw, nourishing landscape. In modern culture, we're often disconnected from these elements and how each is necessary for survival. The new allegory contributes to this dialogue; between emotion and materiality, comfort and necessity.
Paradise is illusive; we can glimpse it and yearn for it, but never fully experience it. Enclosed apertures fold in from the box. Each leads to a view of what is beyond; capturing the essence of one of the four sacred elements; fire, water, wind and earth. Entering one, there's light beyond the bend, and you follow. A window opens onto a garden of fire, one of the four sacred elements. A fire-adapted prairie sweeps in a blaze of yellow and gold. Not able to see the whole box, you move on. Another passage descends, to watery shallows of emergent vegetation. In the third, you ascend into the wind, where wispy stalks dance, spreading their seeds on the air. In the last, you return to the earth, where food and sustenance are born.
(From competitor's text)
14 scanned / 3 viewable
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- Presentation Panel
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