I Garden // Garden as Palimpsest

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>As part of my ongoing doctoral research I've embarked on a phenomenological study with and about gardens my garden in particular. I've spent time sitting writing and creating with my garden collecting words and photographs that spoke on behalf of something we shared together: a voice an idea and a lifeworld. As the texts and artworks emerged they felt like they were asking me to do something with them other than put them in a lackluster document. They wanted to be created with on display in such a way that they could speak authentically and for their presentation on the page to allow the words and images to converse synergistically and playfully as they intended. </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>I Garden </em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>is just that the raw data from my study yet to be interrogated but accessible vocal and dialogic. It attempts to ask the question What is the essence of the experience of garden? by asking Garden herself. </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Garden as Palimpsest </em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>is a glimpse into the process of revisiting what we created together by sifting through the compost for the essence of the experience of garden. How does 'garden' happen to you?</span></p>