COVIctory Gardens
a digital project about gardening during the COVID19 pandemic collage, gardening, conversation, and mapping
2020
“COVIctory gardens” explores the garden both as medium and as the manifestation of spiritual, social, cultural, and community needs. This two year project examined the collective implications of individual actions in the context of gardening during the COVID-19 pandemic. Through visual storytelling, the project celebrates how gardening can nurture our spirits, bodies, neighborhood, and community. The project consisted of a youth artist program, artist interviews, and associated garden-engagements.
As part of the project, gardeners shared their images and reflections about gardening during the pandemic. Collaged together and presented in a zine (2022), the images express the personal, ecological, and emotional gifts of gardening during the pandemic.
CoVictory Gardens is a socially engaged art project that cultivates connection and illustrates social solidarity amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. “CoVictory Gardens” explores the collective implications of individual actions. The project celebrates how gardening can nurture our spirits, bodies, neighborhood, and community through storytelling.
As part of the project, gardeners shared their gardening images during the pandemic. These images were collaged with an interview quote, reflecting the many conceptual and emotional resonances of the garden during the pandemic.