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gARTdening - New work from Kirsty Harris
Over the summer the garden became Kirsty's second studio. The pull of the outdoors was too much to bear and sitting down at a desk to work became a less frequent scenario. There was nothing to do but embrace the situation and she began experimenting with text pieces in the space.
A poem lurks in the undergrowth and many cress works have come and gone as she literally ate her words.
The piece specifically made for this evening, from approx 10,230 seeds, will not last. Before Friday it will outgrow its form and be rendered unreadable - transformed back into food. The passing of time can be a threatening concept for most of us, yet for a gardener it reaps rewards. For the artist it provides a temporary platform through which she can exhibit.
Harris hopes to expand the work into a more public arena. The flats and forest nearby provide rich pickings for sites and she revels in the thought of a dog walker's random discovery.

The answer to the question written in soil is, at once, the most simple and the most inconceivably complicated. Regailling different responses - the notions of parallel universes or many-worlds can be dismissed as simply absurd but, the "what if" scenario delightfully tortures us all.

There is only a certain amount of control she can exert over the success of her work in the garden. Patience and a healthy friendship with frustration are critical. A mischievous squirrel completely destroyed some of her pieces, literally rolling around on them before devouring one of the sunflower faces.
A profound fear of failure has often shadowed Kirsty in the past and so the practicalities of actualising this work help to confront it head on. There are many ways in which the piece could fail; not enough sunshine, too much heavy rain/wind, hungry blackbirds or a infuriatingly curious fox.
The success of the piece is at the mercy of mother nature. Can they work together?

Of course, in one parallel universe it came out perfectly.



Further reading etc;
Flatland - A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin A. Abbott.
The Universe in a Nutshell - Stephen Hawking.
Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll.
Einstein's Dreams - Alan Lightman.
Licey's Story - Stephen King.
The Time Machine - H. G. Wells.
The Hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams.
Donnie Darko - Richard Kelly & related text - The Philosophy of time travel and Donnie Darko.

Recommended Wikipedia searches;
"many-worlds interpretation"
"quantum suicide and immortality"
"Schrödinger's cat"
"objective reality"
"Copenhagen interpretation"

http://www.kirstyharris.blogspot.com for images of other works. Contact - kirstyharris4@hotmail.com 07990688957