IDEA STAGE
Unlike many of my other carefully planned projects, ‘Mama’s Garden’ has multiple layers which are hard to be understood as coherent. However, there are couple of clear stages of the project.
- 15th Jan 2010. I’ve found the project idea.
- February 2010. Whole February has been spent on obsessing on the idea of creating an imitation of an ‘English’ garden and the history of the ‘War of the Roses‘.
-By the beginning of March, thanks to Asa and Liz (Research supervisors), my obsession has discontinued and took a turn to a more ‘realistic’ project implementation. In addition, the discovery of finding how much fake grass actually costs had a real potential to ‘kill’ my idea of creating a garden for my mama. Of course, I quickly erased the existence of the fake grass out of my memory. I thought; let there be a grassless garden. And the likelihood of obtaining or borrowing real park benches had a slim chance of realising.
-Mid March. Lucy and Jess have been great so far, adding ideas which helped a lot to shape the project. They are also putting many hours towards the project, I can’t really imagine doing it alone. Yes, yes, now I know what I am looking to create, my interpretation of a garden, represents pieces of emotions of exchanged between a mother and daughter and those secret words truly understandable only by two of us. The words can be extracted, translated and displayed. That actual activity interferes with the flow of exchanges but this maybe the only way to stop and show the process to others. In other words, this is our stop, a static period of communication. A temporary constant.
The garden fences stands as the political borders separates us, but the letters and flowers are the connectors of our love and dedication to each other.
-Late March. Finally, we have our garden fences and couple of chairs (borrowed from Sian Prosser, my mate) many other objects. Lucy and Jess are producing many flowers using different materials.
-Beginning of April. Finally, things are getting together. Few days left to open to public. You will have to come and see what we have done. For anyone who can’t make it, I will post photos on the blog once the project is over.
THE PROJECT STAGES IN PHOTOS:
Stage One 13 March 2010. The very first images of the space inside the Light.
Stage Two 23 March 2010. Working out what to do with the space, which was much bigger than I imagined.
Stage Three 3 April 2010. Shaping of the garden, making of the trails and putting the fences.
The Project Team in Action. The best project assistants ever: Lucy Biddleston and Jessica Harrison
