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The Index in 4 registers
A vertical cast core reading the garden. From top to bottom: dark stratified soil at the base, from peat to clay - a sandy interface carrying paving aggregates of shell, tile, and brick - and above it the anthropic layer holding the small salvage of the plots cabin wood, wire, glass, petal and seeds.
Tiles stored upright like tablets, each a horizontal section of the ground cover: the soil surface cast on one face, the imprint of the plants that grew through it on the other. A two-sided reading of the garden floor, bound in concrete mixed with the garden's own soil.
An outdoor piece set into the ground, its base in mineral aggregate and its upper column cast in cement, threaded with dead wood and bark and cored with volkstuin compost soil. It is made to weather, and to feed its own slow return to earth. Here, decay and regeneration are held in a single object.
The dispersed piece: individual casts made with and for the each gardeners, each tied to a plot number. Here, the index is made personal, scattered back across the garden it came from, a mirror of the Volkstuin community.
The Volkstuin Index: Cultivated Lithopunctures is supported by the Amarte Fonds, hosted by Nature of Rotterdam at Volkstuinvereniging Tuinderslust, with artist Esther Hoogendijk as expert collaborator.