Saying Ceanothus: The Indefinite Garden

This paper mediates between the work of mourning and the practice of gardening as a space of play. Both ‘work’ and ‘play’ are transplanted across various contexts, theoretical and geographical. It draws upon the vegetal tongue of deconstruction as the common language at the verdurous heart of the lives on which it reflects – the author’s and her green-fingered parents – cultivating the indefinite garden growing on.

7 Photographs accompany the text.