The Healing Garden

The Healing Garden’s branches were foraged from local forest beds and the translucent leaves are made from a homemade bioplastic of red algae, plant gelatine, water, and organic food dyes.

In the process of creating the work, the climate crisis came into focus for me. As I gathered the tree branches, I became well acquainted with the disease and drought plaguing Germany’s forests. The collapse of ecosystems and the suffering of our earth moved from the abstract and into a lived and embodied knowing.

The Healing Garden never fully came to fruition due to the constraints of Covid-19. In its full conception, it is a public work to hold space for gathering, learning, questioning, imagining, and organising for social and environmental change. Every guest to the garden will add a leaf, allowing it to grow in real time.