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    Tuesday, January 16, 2007

    A Few Thoughts About Gardens

    Garden. A plot of land, generally enclosed, where people cultivate useful or attractive plants. Market garden, fruit garden,
    vegetable garden.... (Source: Le Grand Robert)

    A traditional garden is a landscaped, finely worked, and useful site. It is a site for orderly rhythms; the rhythm of the neat rows of plants and, correspondingly, the equally regular rhythm of the gardener.
    A garden is, however, an ambiguous site. It projects into the world outside itself from a space that nonetheless exists within a delimited framework. A garden is therefore a sort of inwardly finite space with outwardly infinite perspectives.

    Garden. Phrase - (1869). Theatre. Coté jardin: stage right (left of actor facing audience). (Source: Le Grand Robert)

    The coté jardin is a transient space, the last step before going on stage, a space also for pulling back, for leaving the stage. It is a silent, hand-wringing pause that precedes and succeeds the moment for expressing oneself and becoming another person, a character.
    The garden idea here conveys the full concept of stageworthiness, acting, staging, ideas, and stories.

    Garden. (1532, Rabelais). Metaphorical. Rich, fertile region. "The garden of Italy" (E. Quinet, in T.L.F.). (Source: Le Grand
    Robert)

    A garden is land, a rich, diverse space, a zone of interaction between the soil, plant, and animal worlds. A garden forms part of the landscape and is a landscape at the same time.
    A garden is a microcosm where culture and nature form a sumptuous whole.

    Garden. Literary, poetic. A place or setting where something blossoms. The garden(s) of childhood. - The green paradise.
    Phrase - Secret garden: secret place of one's feelings and most intimate thoughts. (Source: Le Grand Robert)

    It is an intimate place where dreams and ideas take shape. A garden calls upon the imagination. A garden dwells in us.
    A garden is also a vehicle that leads us elsewhere, whose poetry transforms us and turns us into others.
    A garden is finally an invented place, where poetry and imagination are freely expressed.

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