The exhibit and all related events are free and open to the public. She adds that the artist cares little for horticulture or nature, but rather is interested in how weeds signify cultural meaning. To define a plant as a weed is an act of cultural bias, Fischman explains. We all operate within certain conventions, but we can't control everything Gas gets passed and pimples unexpectedly come. We can accept all of these things, so long as they are maintained.
Weeds are the horticultural equivalent of a zit.
They represent a breakdown, either a failure or refusal to fight the perfunctory battle against entropy. One weed is a forgivable blemish. Overgrowth is hopeless abandon. Overgrowth inside is the cultivation of abandonment, a rewriting of rules. The celebration of failure.