Giving away paradise
Paradise is imagined as a plentiful place that provides beauty, food, and pleasure. Giving Away Paradise provides visitors with free food by contemporary means, but not without limit.
Vending machines in the garden offer food for the taking. When food is taken from a machine a large number displayed overhead counts down the remaining food.
The garden interior is screened from view on the ends by regular rows of corn, which gradually disperse into an informal open landscape of grass, trees and flowers. The garden sides are enclosed by picturesque landscape murals. As the visitor passes the corn she sees vending machines and lounge seating, inviting her to partake freely. When someone takes a food item from a vending machine the counter clicks as the number takes away from 10,000.
Realizing the food is limited invites reflection on the temporality of the garden
and by extension the earth and Paradise.
(Competitor's text)
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