a bit of green

According to Wikipedia, “Guerrilla gardening is gardening on another person’s land without permission”. The term was coined in 1973 by the Green Guerilla group that was active in the Bowery Houston area of New York. The act itself, however, dates back to at least 1649 when Gerrard Winstanley and his group of Protestant agrarian communists called “the Diggers” was active in Surrey, England. The land that is guerrilla gardened (or bewildered as Australian gardener Bob Crombie likes to call it) is usually abandoned or neglected by its legal owner and the guerrilla gardeners take it over (“squat”) to grow plants. This gesture may or may not have a political flavor to it. In our case it doesn’t, at least not consciously.

Package vertical garden installation.

The “Garden for a not too distant future” is an installation that is part vertical garden, part criticism about the lack of green space in cities and the growing hype of overpriced, difficult to maintain vertical walls. The installation consists of 110 transparent food packaging containers inside which were put leaves, branches found in the trees in the area and lights.