Arboreal artifice

摘要

The painstaking transplantation of 318 trees is human intervention par excellence: innocent trees transfigured into living sculptures suspended in time by the whim of human hands. All this effort is driven by the intent to return nature to some state of equilibrium by way of human wisdom, to symbolise the relationship between man and nature. Understood as artifice, the garden is a canvas, and human hands the masters of moulding it to their own subjective ideal.