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PARALLEL WORLDS – Boohri Park
“The domestication of plants not only separated humankind from the inferior orders of animate
creation, but also constituted the barrier between civilization and savagery.”
-Quoted in Tom Carter, The Victorian Garden
Where does "natural" nature start? At what point does nature stop to be wild? Is there really "natural" nature untouched by human? Isn’t everything we call nature artificial in the end, only differentiated in degrees of artificiality? Is a greenhouse a cultivated territory walled off from the wilderness, or a wild territory walled off from the civilization?
The definition of nature and what’s natural can vary depending on where you stand. It’s more of a matter of how we see than what we see, and what we see is largely influenced by how we see.
A greenhouse is a complex site where preservation of ‘wilderness’ and human control over nature take place at the same time. So I chose greenhouse as a boundary and a membrane, where two different worlds (Nature and Culture), which were considered parallel and separate for a long time, meet and intertwine.
An iceberg is placed under the roof of the greenhouse. Monstera Deliciosa, a houseplant, grows outside. They don't have fixed positions. Their places are interchangeable. The greenhouse consists of glass and mirror. Its surface reflects inside and outside, "wild" and "tame", "natural" and "artificial". It makes a collage of different modes of nature.
ARCHIVE
PARALLEL WORLDS – Boohri Park
“The domestication of plants not only separated humankind from the inferior orders of animate
creation, but also constituted the barrier between civilization and savagery.”
-Quoted in Tom Carter, The Victorian Garden
Where does "natural" nature start? At what point does nature stop to be wild? Is there really "natural" nature untouched by human? Isn’t everything we call nature artificial in the end, only differentiated in degrees of artificiality? Is a greenhouse a cultivated territory walled off from the wilderness, or a wild territory walled off from the civilization?
The definition of nature and what’s natural can vary depending on where you stand. It’s more of a matter of how we see than what we see, and what we see is largely influenced by how we see.
A greenhouse is a complex site where preservation of ‘wilderness’ and human control over nature take place at the same time. So I chose greenhouse as a boundary and a membrane, where two different worlds (Nature and Culture), which were considered parallel and separate for a long time, meet and intertwine.
An iceberg is placed under the roof of the greenhouse. Monstera Deliciosa, a houseplant, grows outside. They don't have fixed positions. Their places are interchangeable. The greenhouse consists of glass and mirror. Its surface reflects inside and outside, "wild" and "tame", "natural" and "artificial". It makes a collage of different modes of nature.
Melt
Head
Today
Burnt
Tails
Tomorrow
Melt
Head
Today
Burnt
Tails
Tomorrow
