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A rising flower makes a garden
Een rijzende bloem vormt een tuin

Ratu R. Saraswati

2022

On the opening day, Saras reads the script she wrote for the neighbours and guests who gathered on 10 December 2022. 

Do you know that there is no scarcity in heaven?
Is that true that there is no scarcity in heaven?
Who told you that there is no scarcity in heaven?


Weet jij dat er geen tekorten in de Hemel zijn?
Is het waar dat er geen tekorten in de Hemel zijn?
Wie heeft jou verteld dat er geen tekorten in de Hemel zijn?

- Excerpt from A rising flower makes a garden script

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A rising flower makes a garden: A script (pdf)


Photographs of the rose from Wipmolentuin, a 30-year community garden initiated by Annie, a resident of Molenwijk neighbourhood, Amsterdam Noord
Riso-printed photograph, an edition of 250, yellow, fluorescent pink, aqua, black inks given as
gifts for neighbours and visitors

Photographs of colchicum from Toon Kleiss Paradijs, a garden in the neighbourhood

​Presentation at Framer Framed Werkplaats Molenwijk, Amsterdam

Installation photo from the exhibition A rising flower makes a garden (2022) at Werkplaats Molenwijk, Amsterdam. © Lina van den Idsert / Framer Framed.

Video and editing by Lina van den Idsert

Supported by Framer Framed, Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam

Riso prints by PrintRoom, Rotterdam

© 2023 by Ratu R. Saraswati

Clematis blooms unusually in early February at Kazerne by Ratu Saraswati

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