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Paper Garden

Paper Garden
Serigraphs on backing paper, LED lights
Installation, dimensions variable

Using a matrix of hand screenprinted imagery, Paper Garden offers an ephemeral, indoor reimagining of Untermyer Park. Printed plants, garden architecture, and ornamental motifs unfurl across architectural surfaces, transforming them into an immersive paper garden. With no framing or fixed boundary, the installation blurs the line between authenticity and illusion—inviting reflection on how natural spaces are curated, staged, and mythologized.

This uncanny interior landscape parallels our experience of urban parks: environments that appear wild yet are carefully designed to simulate wilderness. By transposing the garden indoors, Paper Garden stages a dialogue between interior and exterior, nature and artifice—revealing how both cultivated gardens and ornamental patterns serve as frameworks for controlling and romanticizing the natural world.

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