The Berkeley Community Gardens house gardeners of diverse social/ economic and cultural backgrounds.These diversities are reflected through the variety of gardening practises, methods of employing materials and use of land plots.
As a hypothesis, the different gardening styles is a "public" representation of the "inner" living space which the gardeners replicates from memory or directly relates to their aesthetics production of space(Home). The idea that the order of living space and the order of the garden co-relates on multidimensional levels with many crossing overs may have resulted in the clash of styles and perceptive use of the space for utilitarian purposes.
It may be a research topic which can be explored further, taking the form of photographic essay/video document of the core relationships and interconnections between the public and the private.
The next topic is the increasing number of Nail Salons in the South End neighbourhood. The idea of the use of the human hand by a gardener verse the idea of personal physical beauty/health. What does it mean for diverse cultures to interact through the "bodily" human contact in the salons and what are the differences when that human interaction happens at the Berkeley Gardens? Where is the private and the public?
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