{"id":3103,"date":"2021-06-07T17:01:53","date_gmt":"2021-06-07T16:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ian-latham.com\/blog\/?p=3103"},"modified":"2021-06-07T17:04:32","modified_gmt":"2021-06-07T16:04:32","slug":"gardens-project-seven-progress-of-sorts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ian-latham.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/07\/gardens-project-seven-progress-of-sorts\/","title":{"rendered":"Gardens Project Seven: Progress of Sorts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gardens Project Seven: Progress of Sorts<\/p>\n

I’ve been trying to work out what I’m doing and all I can come up with are questions.<\/span><\/p>\n

Do ghosts have girdling roots tightening around them over time until they stop? What happens when they stop? What does a stopped ghost feel like? <\/span><\/p>\n

What about transcience? I have photographs that serve as the only memory of a place and time, everything else in my head is learned. The photograph is felt. <\/span><\/p>\n

Hauntology? (‘a situation of temporal and ontological disjunction in which presence is replaced by a deferred non-origin’ according to wikipedia) another word for nostalgia in contemporary cultural discourse. <\/span><\/p>\n

There is a sense that searching for ‘self’ in memory untethers the present and causes drift between the then and the now.<\/span><\/p>\n

The garden is the liminal space in which all the questions are asked and none are answered. Now all I need to do is find a word for that.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Savick:

Savick: Transient Landscape ‘the big match’<\/p><\/div>\n

This image is the drawn from the photgraph that is the inspiration for Savick, the first transition scene in the gardens project. The outline idea is that the passage between gardens opens into these half remembered spaces. I remember little of significance about them, but I have evidence that I was there. Each garden grows the space so that, should you wish, you could go backwards but find things changed.<\/span><\/p>\n