This web site carries what emerged from my research in the framework of my Major Project in Social Sculpture. The project presents my process of self-discovery focusing on moments throughout my whole life, a developing garden, and the things that constitute who I am now.

 

 

Through exploring the world around me and discovering that my life IS a garden, I have learned a lot about myself. My eyes are open to the world surrounding me, and I am learning to be attentive to the world.

One day, when I was 16 years old, I began taking photographs of my family’s garden. Looking at the garden through the lens of a camera, I discovered a new passion:  an opened door into a new world that allowed me to see the living processes that infinitively occur around us. This is why for my nineteenth birthday; I received as a gift from my parents, a camera. Photography helped me understand my experience of my surroundings with a deeper consciousness.

 

I hope this book that documents my experience of understanding the world through gardens and gardeners can serve as an opening and an invitation for you to reflect on the gardens and gardeners in your life. I invite you to be transported by my particular journey through different ways of seeing, feeling, and being in gardens. My perceptions invite you to experience and reflect upon the importance of green space in human life, but not just green space. Gardens: secret, inner, outer, quiet or wild...anything can be a garden!