Moving Garden
26 July - 23 November 2004

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I grew carrots in the garden near my studio at Rijksakademie.
When I was soften the ground for a couple of days already, a car park into the garden, on top of the ground that I had just soften.
It could see clearly that the deserted hidden corner some one is trying to change into a small garden.
Someone park his car on it. I went to the guy who takes care of the Rijksakademie building. He said he want that the car park there even it is a garden. I made a fence. Next day it was trown away and the car there. So I made a fence again with a note telling that it is art project. Day after, it was damaged and the car park there again.

Long and emotional argument (fighting) between me and the guy who take care of the building. He insists to let the car (even before it wasforbidden to put the car there).

After I cried a bit, I went directly to the owner of the car who was temporarily work at the Rijks and explain to him about the garden. He moved his car immedietly and never put it there again. Looked like someone who didn’t deal with art had the understanding for other people better, may be.

So I put the stones and bricks that I picked up from the carrot garden and put them in the building. I moved the “stone garden” every two nights to different places, in front of my studio, entrance to the manege, hall East, corridors, computer department, library, and director office.

When someone complained to the facilitator about the stone make them inconvenient and want them to be remove. I said to my facilitator “Tell them it is Art” So, during the carrot in the garden outside was growing slowly, the lifeless stone garden made is voyage to different places in the building by an unknown person safely.