This installation was developed through observations of the urban environments of Taipei and Keelung. This work simulates provisional gardens that emerge within the urban environment at the boundary between private spaces—such as homes and privately owned land—and public spaces, including roads and other communal areas. In the narrow alleyways commonly found in East Asia, one often encounters scenes in which plants, discarded household objects, miscellaneous debris, fragments of domestic infrastructure, and building materials gather around the entrances of homes, temporarily forming small-scale landscapes.
Created through the accidental interweaving of natural and artificial elements, these provisional gardens are private gardens belonging to local residents, yet they extend beyond the boundaries of the home and contribute to the public image of the city. Taking as its motifs both this reversal between the private and the public and the unclassified objects that compose these temporary gardens, the work abstracts and reconstructs them in its own way. In doing so, it simulates an urban garden that is continuously generated through the mutual interference of nature and the artificial, and of the private and the public.
