Adrift and Between Stones

The Royal Botanical Garden while a living archive, it is a constant, sanctuary, site of nurture, where memories and associations linked to plant species lost in time connect to personal histories. Adrift and Between Stones is a retrieval of fragments- of fragility, fracture and brevity which nestle and float in memory. Sanctuary becomes provisional, the garden a metaphor where the fragile persistence of blooms within inhospitable or once lovingly tended now abandoned environments become potent symbols of endurance and temporality.

My life knows loss, vulnerability and change. The Botanical Garden and recently the Zinnia garden empower and nourish the spirit