"Noah's
garden beds" is embodied in many ways in an apron that protects our
physical and spiritual state. This is a symbol of resurrection.
We have all
heard the story of Noah's Ark, when the whole world was sinking, only Noah and
his family were saved in the ark, along with the animal and plant species. We
are probably not the only ones who sometimes think what would happen to the
Earth, if the world was hit by a natural disaster, what would happen to animals
and plants? Climate change keeps us thinking about it. Plant seed banks, also
known as "end of the world" plant genetic banks are one of the means
of protecting the Earth's vegetation.
Today's war
situation only sharpens the taste of thoughts. Russian military forces have
destroyed a unique plant genetic bank operating in the northeastern Ukrainian
city Kharkiv, one of only a few in the world. It used to store more than 160
thousand examples of plant species and varieties collected from all over the
world over decades and centuries; the species which will no longer be possible
to restore because these collections have been completely destroyed. The
intention of wearing our apron is to rethink the concept of our identity, the
journey to sustainability, the resurrection.
The moments of
emergence, decay and rebirth are aestheticized in organic threads, and
experimental research is visualized in a laboratory context.