Dead calm, rude nature
2008
50x50x62cm, Papier-Maché.
2008
50x50x62cm, Papier-Maché.
All of these works deals with garden and nature and how nature have been, and sometimes still, are thought as horrifying and something which have to be organized and controlled.
The early botanic gardens was seen as an encyclopedia of God's creation. ''Plants were restful things, free from motion, and, so it was generally imagined, from the perturbations of sex." (''The Garden of Eden,'' John Prest). Later, in the 17th century, Abraham Cowley described how the roots of a male and female palm tree groping underground to a embrace, and it was also clear that a female tree never bring fruits without standing close to a male tree. The nature was divided in common and perfect nature and gardens became a political subject.
During the 18th-century, a writer describe the human body´s perishableness as "rude nature", this gave way to a confused translation in which gardens became even more prudish and organized.
