Garden for things of different origin

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  Garden for things of different origin | 2011

The form of the sculpture stems from a stone I found during my residency in Taiwan in a former village where indigenous people used to live. Stones as key forms and space. Layers include products of nature, objects, and outlines, everything that remained captured in some place. I have transformed the form of the found stone into layers and created a sculpture”of the stone”. The material that remained after cutting out the form of the “stone” was used to form the layers of a landscape. The remnants of joists made for the construction supporting the individual layers were used to construct an informal urban complex – “a town”. I have inserted all the different materials of nature that I gather while walking between the layers of the sculpture “of the stone”. I inserted dry plants with roots into “the landscape” and one of the plants – Mediterranean thyme – I placed on a traditional Chinese flower stand. In “the town” natural materials are in paper packing and arranged in the order in which they were archived. An inseparable part of the town is a projection in which certain fragments of natural material (e.g. wings of a locust) are rearranged to get their original form, e.g. butterfly wings are rearranged by the wind.