Skip to content

Gardening as Resistance: Notes on Building Paradise

0.5805
Chimera Difficulty Score
a synthesis of Flesch-Kincaid, Coleman-Liau, SMOG, and Dale-Chall readability metrics
Gardening as Resistance: Notes on Building Paradise By Maria Popova “The gardener digs in another time, without past or future, beginning or end… Here is the Amen beyond the prayer,” Derek Jarman wrote as he grieved his dying friends, faced his own death, and contemplated art, mortality, and resistance while planting a garden between an old lighthouse and a new nuclear plant on a barren shingled s...
In her analysis, Laing invites readers to consider the relationship between gardening, art, and resistance as forms of building paradise in a tumultuous world. By exploring Derek Jarman's garden and his contemplations on mortality and resistance, she suggests that art can offer a means of persisting in the face of adversity by creating spaces of beauty, growth, and hope. However, Laing also acknowledges the limits of resistance given the fundamental laws governing our existence and questions whe...