How can nature be represented in the city? Our urban culture misses the illusions of garden, of nature. The ‘Preserve of Garden Paradise’ re-creates this outside nature as a gateway to the Trillium. Both a fantasy of and monument to a decaying paradise, the sculpture is a preserved image of garden and nature, a foreground to the city and street.

The sculpture protects and captures the monumentality of the Canadian landscape - specifically the Acadian Forest. Native flora and fauna are skillfully choreographed into a paradisal mosaic scene with subtle and evocative details. This sample of fragile nature is preserved in an outdoor gallery, invoking the imagination and our inherent longing for the ideal of the canadian wilderness. A compelling surreal experience, visitors and residents forget the artifices of the city and engage with nature itself.

Credits:

Design & Images:
RUF Project

Lead: Sean Pearson & Alyssa Schwann