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June 29, 2002 — July 27, 2002
76 Grand Street, New York
A collaboration between Julia Chiang and Ryan McGinness Dream Garden was a lush environment that was ripe and intoxicating. The imagery combined everyday graphic signs with personalized iconography in order to form a new vocabulary. A non-linear, non-narrative story was created where every element is tied to every other element in a self-supporting organic web. The compositions were formed from a mixture of past memories and childhood experiences and brought into a new tale of ideals and fantasies about life and love. The garden was a lucid dream environment that followed a tradition of storytelling where the beginning leads to an end, only Chiang and McGinness's end was just another beginning where possibilities take multiple forms. Alice found her Wonderland and Cinderella met her Prince. In Dream Garden one could cultivate love, see a bird sing a love song, watch rainbows form, and experience the cycle of life as bees pollinate flowers. It was a fantastical and absurd dream garden of life and love where all and nothing exist. In this world of paradox, life gives birth to superficiality while superficiality breeds itself. The space was a hybrid of flatness and dimension where everything is a product of itself.
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