The garden appears as a contradictory space where natural growth and human desire intersect. Although it resembles a natural environment, it is continuously constructed through acts of selection, placement, care, cultivation, and removal. Some plants are protected and encouraged to grow, while others are classified as unwanted and removed. The garden therefore becomes a space in which belonging is not simply given, but actively produced and regulated.

Plants of uncertain origin grow side by side. Some take root and remain, while others appear briefly before disappearing. I became interested in the conditions that allow one form of life to remain while another is displaced, and in how care can operate simultaneously as protection and control. These structures resonate with experiences of migration and adaptation, but also with broader questions of belonging. who is allowed to remain, under what conditions, and who determines what belongs.

The garden gradually expands from a personal memory into a social structure. Rather than an idyllic image of nature, it becomes a constructed system in which growth depends on continuous maintenance, classification, and intervention. Within this system, care, control, exclusion, and resistance do not exist separately but often operate together. The Garden series considers belonging not as a fixed identity, but as a condition that is continuously negotiated and maintained.