Our Synthetic Garden

This installation is a response to the systems found in my back garden. A place where years of living, discarding and hoarding have enabled symbiotic relationships between the human-made and the ‘natural’. The hanging works are made of repurposed nylon/cotton tights, soil, and plant matter. These synthetic structures once worn by women are repurposed and now hold, warm and aid the growth within.
The work responds to ideas surrounding transversality in rejecting the separateness of nature, as these materials co-exist in the environment I have staged. The tights made up of a network of threads take on the characteristics of moss, their fibrous rhizoids hooking and grappling onto the existing architecture of the church. The objects on the plinth are artefacts of the garden and the nodes of the rhizomatic structure above. The artefacts act as signifiers of transversality, as their time in the elements has led to them harbouring interdependent relationships free of human design.