The soundscape, created in collaboration with musician Emilio Quezeda Ibanez, incorporated recordings from the garden, blending the natural sounds of Lebanon with the personal (my teta’s voice, a car driving by), creating an auditory landscape that also interacted with the sounds of the city (the installation was on a noisy street in NYC), fusing the current moment with a past memory. A custom incense was also created using essential oils derived from plants in the garden (rose, jasmine, gardenia, fig, cedar), which burned on the first night of the installation.
Impossible Garden explored the idea of memory as a living, shifting entity, intertwined with the places we inhabit. The garden, a symbol of both continuity and change, became a site of personal and collective reflection, connecting past and present in a shared experience of place. The project highlighted how memory and landscape inform one another, creating a dialogue between the physical and emotional remnants of home, identity, and belonging.
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