my first childhood “garden” experience would be playing in tidepools at the ocean. I grew up on the coast of maine and would spend much of my time exploring the waters edge. The tides produce a variety of intimate/delicate pools of water that support an ecosystem. Walking from one to the other, looking at reflections, smelling the sea air, listening to the water…all these actions are part of my garden experience.
i’d like to think of nature as a dialogue between body and environment, a malleable space capable of sowing new worlds; and thus…the jardins of Monet [giverny] are nature-(al)…: the landscape has gone through a process of cultivation…transformed into a new place, [but still nature-(al)]: just more refined and organized.
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