sowing seeds
a peony returns
alien pink roots thrusting through bare soil
the fennel self-seeds
a rhizome as subterranean stem
the vicissitudes of nourishment

sowing seeds reimagines the garden in a speculative future where bio-technical convergence has led to a dissolving of boundaries between humans, technology, and Nature. The garden disorients through the alteration of time, scale, and experience, inviting you to arrive as you are. Botanical remnants of cross pollination and grafting are left as traces of slow process and the evolution of plant life.

Approaching virtual space-making through experimentation, care, and collaboration, we drew freely from textual fragments and visual research – unearthing chimeric interactions of machine, plant, and human ways of being. Passing these fragments to an AI image generation model trained on environmental and painterly sources collected by the artist, machine perspectives on hypothetical plant life were generated then reinterpreted through 3D modeling. In dialogue, sound was created by spectrally morphing longform co-improvisations with text recitations and field recordings to grow an ever changing dynamic soundscape. This web of reference, collective play, and experimentation is reflected in the garden’s current inhabitants.

Questioning the notion of the garden as a place of purity, or an object of human control, and dismissing the illusion of a pristine natural world to be conserved, we attempt to steward a half-wild garden - a hybrid space both feral and managed, acknowledging the entanglements of the natural and artificial in and beyond the Capitalocene.