A Garden Enclosed, A Fountain Sealed

A Garden Enclosed, A Fountain Sealed

A Garden Enclosed, A Fountain Sealed
September 2017
inparadi.se

Audrey Hope, Ficus Interfaith, Tommy Krek Sveningsson, Dennis Witkin

A garden path can become the thread of a plot; it can have a beginning, middle, and end, or it can be an interminable circle—the drama of the seasons, of rocks being ground to dirt, of a horizon being remade.

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Imagine an old stone wall: you stumble across it as you walk in the woods. A few of the rocks are dislodged, others thick with moss. Beyond the rough stones and tangled thickets lies a plot of land, quartered and cloistered away. On its outer edges and through the center run wide walks as straight as arrows.

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An ecotone is a transition area between two biomes. It is where two communities meet and integrate. It may be narrow or wide, local or regional. An ecotone may appear on the ground as a gradual blending of the two communities across a broad area, or it may manifest itself as a sharp boundary line.

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In the garden, arcadia is differently sampled: the shaggy and smooth; dark and light; a place of leisure and a place of primitive panic. An artificial edge such as a wall often forms a permanent boundary, shifting the land around its axes. But natural edges drape over the land. They are the point where the garden touches the wall, where vines creep over stone, where feet sink into soft, loamy soil.

Sten 4, 2016
Tommy Krek Sveningsson
Styrofoam, fiberglass, plaster, acrylic paint

Petrified Pillow, 2016
Audrey Hope
Photograph printed on cotton, bed sheets, raw cotton, handmade rope, beads, fake owers, burrs, thistles, dirt from Pepper Canyon, reclaimed water, owers, found note, yellow Easter grass, found bungeecord, spray paint, acrylic paint, thread

Bondage Bundle, 2016
Audrey Hope
Damask curtain, handmade rope, dirt from Pepper Canyon, brass, fur, pins, glue, spray paint, raw cotton, burrs, house paint