Garden Variety Affair

A Love Story, 2022

Run away, go find a lover
Run away, let your heart be your guide
You deserve the deepest of cover
You belong in that home by and by.

~ “Wildflowers”,
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

At once a romanticized refuge and poetic landscape, a beloved garden belies the labor of its caretaker. Springing from the most virtuous imaginings, its allure lies in the hope of a luxuriant spring, a tender summer and lingering fall. A natural space that only lightly bends to the caretaker’s earnestness, it teases with the promise of perfection while every moment existing in a state of evanescence. Perhaps this is its very charm. To tend a garden requires never-ending love, and relentless letting go.