How does one map the richness of a garden, that breathes with creatures and organisms of constant movement, in a way that is vivid and alluded by chance of connection to the wild? As we wander and meander across the OmVed Gardens, each of us responded to the geographic nodes, landmarks, edges, terrain and the living bees.

Approaching the drawing from a methodological process, we folded the canvas into an eight by four rectangle grid. Allowing us to work within these constraints at first, but eventually, through the constant conflict within the “fold” as a mechanism of “chance” in the x and y axes, we find lucid and theatrical connections in the flight of the bees and ambiguous mass across the landscape. The cartographic mapping attempts to provoke questions with the story of our immediate tangible environment and experiment with the unexpected epiphany through the physical bending of space and time charted on a two-dimensional plane.

We now invite you, the viewer, to be a part of this collaborative journey of “chance” and to step back or to lean forward or, even better, folding the drawing to discover your scenarios of the garden.

The Cartographies of the Imagination Workshop was a two-day event hosted in OmVed Gardens, where I collaborated with 4 MArch (Master of Architecture) and design students to create the cartographic collaborative drawing.

In collaboration with Oscar Brown, Elliot Bulman, Silvan-Mihai Cimpoesu,
Kenny Tam and Hanna Tweg

Exhibited at the OmVed Gardens in July 2021