Art of the garden renewal: What’s mine is yours seeks to share with and inspire visitors to create their own paradise. Visitors may take plants from the garden with them when they leave. Engaging visitors to disseminate physical pieces of the garden is designed to result in new physical or contemplative spaces being created. The object taken, significant of their experience, becomes the source for re-creation or renewal, of their own future garden or paradise. The classical themes of this paradise garden, such as the enclosure, cultivation, use of water, odour and fruit, free-growing plants, the evenness of plantation, have been reinterpreted to challenge perception and to contemplate on what paradise looks like today. Plant species from all continents symbolize our earthly paradisum and thrive in formally arranged pots and man-made combinations in sunken beds and scaffold walls. Letters on pots are arranged in phrases to evoke thoughts and meanings. An ideal state exists only at the moment of erection, then immediately transforms through public interaction as visitors are invited to move, change, and take plants. The conjunction of creation, destruction and preservation will evolve into something new, spontaneously (un)ordered, and leave an illusion of its original self. The plants spread throughout Quebec, enriching lives and disseminating a non-utopian paradise.

Design &: Images:
RUF Project

Alyssa Schwann
Sean Pearson
Katherine Davey
Andrew Forster
Jan Haenraets
Linus Lam
Denise Liu