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The acts of both making art and experiencing art are forms of ecological tuning, places where you find yourself deeply entangled with something that is distinctly not-you. and a garden to look out on is an installation considering throughlines between science, art and formal gardens in a world that is teeming with beautiful, strange ecological encounters. 


This installation is in direct conversation with the portico in front of the Mount Royal Station Building in Baltimore, MD. Porticos began to show up early U.S. architecture as a part of a broader aesthetic push to blend architecture and landscape. The symmetrical, Greco-Roman aesthetics of porticos were often mirrored in the gardens they led out to—manicured formal gardens intended to represent humankind’s ability to re-arrange and re-order (dominate) non-human life. and a garden to look out on imagines this portico as the site for a strange garden, intended to acknowledge the uncanny spaces that exist between human and non-human life.
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Pen plotted drawing based on print from Gardener’s Labyrinth