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Anywhere Gardens series, 2005-2006
Botanical Gardens are associated with the era of exploration and collection, with the expansion of the British Empire.
Every town and city in New Zealand, and perhaps every other country colonised by the British, boasts a Botanical
Gardens. All the gardens are modelled on Kew Gardens and seem to follow a checklist of prerequisite features that vary
only in detail. There is the fountain, the glasshouse, the statue, the waterlily pond and so on. Beautiful, dowdy or
possibly innocuous, our local Botanical Gardens exist as cuttings of Britain. This body of work brings together
aspects of the Botanical Gardens with some other remnants of British ideals and sensibilities found in our homes.
All material ©Cathy Tuato'o Ross and Photospace
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