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Lucinda Coulthard designed a 'More-Than-Human' garden for Tate Britain. Participants joined a workshop where they explored mutually beneficial relationships through gardening, as a powerful act of care. Where care is seeded, hope springs. We used the body of Yoko Ono’s Add Colour (Refugee Boat), salvaged from the exhibition at Tate Modern last year. Reusing the boat’s shell, we planted a sea of blue flowers, the most attractive colour for pollinators. The plants were also chosen for their scent maps, providing the most attractive scents for pollinators along with scents that induce calmness in the human brain for rest. The garden will provide a setting of mutual benefit and connection between the human and more than human. It will offer a powerful setting for acts of care that have the potential to leak beyond the garden setting.
Yoko Ono’s Add Colour (Refugee Boat), invited visitors to Tate Modern to write words of hope in blue marker pens over the surface of the walls and boat, this garden will be collaboratively nurtured for the benefit of humans and more than human visitors, it will echo those messages for hope for a better future. It invites us to consider the impact collective action can have. The garden echoes Ono’s belief in human agency and her understanding that ‘we are sharing this world’ and sharing our responsibility for it. It is only through mutual care and nurture for all that we will grow and thrive.
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