“What is a Garden?”, Installation, Lynn Aurelie, 2025

Lynn Aurélie, What is a Garden?, 2025, Mixed Media, Collection of the Artist

This installation reimagines a community gathering co-hosted by the Pao Arts Center and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Photographs from the event are displayed alongside raffia straw string, clothespins, fresh flowers, and other materials that echo the evening’s themes of community , creativity, and urban gardening.

At the heart of the work is a bouquet, recreated and enlarged from one arranged during the workshop using the same flowers. These elements work together to create a living time capsule that invites viewers to step into the essence of that shared moment.