Walks in a concave garden
2022
Walks in a concave garden, 2022
Cotton fabric colored with dyes derived from plant leaves.
During the fall of 2022, leaves from various trees and plants were gathered from the backyard of the Berg van Barmhartigheid building in Ghent, Belgium. The leaves were carefully processed into natural dyes and then applied to a fabric polyhedron, with each face painted using pigments derived from a different plant or tree.
Each plant in the garden—and therefore each collected leaf—embodies a unique response to environmental challenges such as water management, fluctuations in daylight and temperature, chlorophyll levels, and more. The coexistence of all the plants and trees of the backyard, and therefore of these responses, shape the overall image of the garden.
Similarly, a polyhedron is formed by the intersection of multiple half-spaces, each defined by a plane in three dimensions. In this sense, the polyhedron is an expression of the coexistence of these planes in the same space.
