Green with… is a horticultural installation concerned with the human emotions of envy and desire. This theme is explored through colour, form, plant history and poetry. The structure suggests a cage, perhaps the prison that the deeply envious individual who desires what another owns will inevitably find themselves trapped within, should they not conquer their […]
This garden is a personal response to the word grass. By using both artificial and real grass it makes a broader statement about how grass plays a fundamental role in human society. The garden explores issues such as the sustainability of monocultures and our need to both control and let go of reality.
Ecstasy In A Very Black Box is a visual representation of bipolar disorder. The dual nature of the condition is reflected in the sharply contrasting textures, colours and shapes. The black, prison like outer wall suggests constraint and limitation, while the upturned box spilling its brightly coloured contents expresses freedom and euphoria. At first it […]
Diamonds and Rust is concerned with human perceptions of time. From the apparent permanence of geological features to the transience of human structures and industry. The garden contrasts the relative time scales of geological time, ancient human history and our industrial age. The diamonds of the title represent geology, and rust the rapid decay of […]
CHAOS is concerned with Chaos Theory, intelligent design and fate. Its creation could, along with everything else, be the result of intelligent design, chaos or fate. If highly ordered structures can be the result of complex chaotic systems, it could be that everything is a result of complex chaotic systems and by logical extension, all […]