Night Gardens at Robert Mann Gallery

Eighteen months ago, I started working on this series when I had the chance to build Ebb of a Spring Tide at Socrates Sculpture Park in Queens, NY. The sculpture drew water from the East River to run a water clock and to grow salt-tolerant plants. Salt-tolerant plants are more necessary in a future when we are contending with increased flooding. 

 

Since then, I’ve been developing the Night Gardens series—photographic collages that portray gardens as poetic spaces of transformation and creative imagination, intimate exchanges between imagination and earth. Gardens are meditative landscapes, where even the smallest acts—planting, watering, pruning—require a kind of surrender. They can evoke a miniature world where resilience and adaptation intertwine.