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The Lunarian Garden by Annu Wilenius

“In the early 17th century Francis Godwin, bishop of Hereford, wrote a story about a man who travelled to the moon with the aid of 25 swan and found an ideal society there. According to Godwin the moon people lived almost eternally and due to different gravitational laws they were able to fly using feather fans held in both hands.... In his fantasy I find many things addressing questions of being in a place, and imaginging being somewhere else - and the difficulty of really imagining anything beyond one’s own scope of experience."

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"In the project Lunarian Garden I want to create a fantasy of a Lunarian re-creating a garden on earth. In practice this would involve a travel-format green-house, seeds, growing grounds and lights together with film materials presenting ideas about light and gravity."
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Annu Wilenius (Finland) was an official resident of This Neck of the Woods May 7-21, 2006.

 

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