The Gardeners
The Yerevan gardens have a long tradition and are deeply rooted in
Armenian culture. Gaining importance as a source of fresh vegetables in times
of crisis and becoming more amateur nature in better times,
they make these shifts every time the political and economic situation in the
Caucasus changes. They connect the city's inhabitants with nature but also they
connect the citizens with each other. The structures built to make the plants
grow go beyond the fences of the properties. They dissolve the borders between
private and public space. They also dissolve the border between the city and
the countryside, between culture and nature. Finally, they are also representations
of the individual imagination of the idea of a garden. Gardens are places where
time passes differently, closer to the yearly cycle of nature and one can feel this
while spending time with the gardeners.
Jan Brykczyński
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