Tuesday, May 22, 2007

One character is poetry immersed and represented through poetry. And the garden, her garden, keeps her poetry and changes through this poetry. She attempts to change the garden, the garden changes her. The other character, the traveller, is the storyteller. She speaks of places she has been and people she has seen. The references are in the garden but she hardly speaks of it. There is a narrative in the story, actually five narratives, cyclic stories that never come to an end. The importance of the stories is not the stories in itself but the event of joining people, of telling it, of listening, of the language and expressions used for presenting it.

Each story is cut by a meeting within the story, a meeting with another character's story that will then carry on without ever completing the first one. This is where the characters meet, it is not in the garden. It is not in space and time, but through their stories, connecting stories.

There is also someone who knows of plants, who knows of change. Someone who also knows why we are there, the purposes and events that led to this meeting. She is not a character but she also has a story to tell, a story of fragments, time and space. It is a piece of history given in an unexpected way. In a poetic way. She might take you by the hand and show something no one else will see, tell you a secret.

These are three of the essencial elements. Then, there is the garden. What can one say about the garden? What can we say about the garden in months to come? You have to go and see it!

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