Garden

Installation and experimental video, 1 min 54 sec

2022

Plastic bowl, soil, dried flowers, tangerines, air-dry clay, weeds

This garden holds wilted and rotting flowers, weeds from the parking lot outside of my apartment, tangerine rinds, flesh, and juice, and a pastiche of a cabbage leaf I made using air-dry clay. The garden sits in a plastic kimchi making bowl I found at H Mart, surpassing fixed spatial and temporal specificity. It serves as an exploration of cultural ritual and the processing intergenerational oral histories, and interrogates fixed understandings of being and belonging, allowing me to ask: What is a garden? Can I enact the gesture of archiving through a nonlinear, queered perspective? Can gardens offer transgressive visions of queerness, community, and survival?