The Garden in Motion

Anyone who knows my research knows I'm a strong advocate for French Botanist and gardener Giles Clement's work. This piece is my humourous attempt to honour him and exists in the hope that the seeds scattered in this container, the results of my own gardening, will spread throughout the city as it's transported back to base, not unlike the concept of writing on trains. Art in Motion.

The Garden in Motion takes its name from the physical movement of plant species on the ground, which the gardener interprets as he pleases. Flowers coming to germinate in a passage give the gardener the choice of whether he wants to keep the passage clear or keep the flowers. Le Jardin en Mouvement recommends conserving the species that have decided on their location. These principles overturn the formal conception of the garden which is usually placed entirely in the hands of the gardener. The design of the garden, changing over time, depends on who maintains it, it is not the result of a workshop design on the drawing table. As unsanctioned Graffiti and Street Art is to commissioned Public Art, so the Garden in Motion concept is the garden.

This mode of management, therefore of design, developed from the garden of the Valley, then theorized and extended to all spaces and all scales, has been exported to cities in France but also abroad, sometimes in referring to the generic term of differentiated management, sometimes referring to the specific term of Jardin en Mouvement described for the first time in 1984 in an article published under the title La friche apprivoisée. Note the date. Free the plants.