This is just one image from an archive in progress of many images created in collaboration with photographer Keiko Ikeuchi, of Prospect House Garden that Marie-Gabrielle Rotie designed and built over a seven year period from 2014 to 2022.

The garden became a vehicle for embodied research into both the human and non-human: the garden became a space to enact rituals.

It became an act of labour, a ritual, a dream-space, a lost space, a refuge, memorial for loss, fragility, ageing and death as well as a celebration and acceptance of life as always in transience.

The process of creating the garden was an enactment of the mythical labours that revealed hidden archetypes entwined with seasonal cycles of bloom and decay.

Prospect House was named in homage to Prospect Cottage by Derek Jarman, a garden that in so many ways memorialised loss and mortality.

This photo project draws upon research into Japanese Aesthetics, Butoh and the wider call to ecological awareness.

The image collection is hosted on the website domain and will also be released as a photo/text book.

Please note that this image is part of a larger project that is unfolding and will be completed in 2025.

https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/35586