This installation proposes to analyze the experiences which feel “natural” to us by creating a space which is familiar to all the people on earth in some or other form – a garden.

Even before the lock-down after the pandemic we had started pushing the gardens away from our living spaces. Now, it cannot come to us and out of our busy lives we seldom find time to spend in a garden. In its replacement we have created a representational of a garden surrounding us. It is printed on our bags, our clothes, furniture upholstery, even shoes and plates. The flowers in a real garden are natural but that garden itself is synthetic – man made. But this printed synthetic garden has entered our world and our lives and feels as if it did so naturally with time.

We propose to build this garden made up objects of everyday use creating a living space. They are to be placed in local wild-flowerbeds separating the objects from each other and creating a disjunction in the form of pathways through which visitors walk around. They notice these objects and recognize the spaces they relate to, but the flower beds prevent them from accessing the intimacy of familiar spaces.

This garden is to be created in a public space which is used by people everyday on their way to their work/home. It created a place where we can collectively explore the garden around us. It asks us to reconsider our cultural condition and ask ourselves, in this world we are creating what is natural and what is synthetic?