Based on photographs taken at the Eden Project, a complex of artificial biomes in Cornwall in the south of England, “space garden” visualizes the idea of future greenhouses in space. The giant multidome greenhouse is related to Buckminster Fuller’s geodesic structures and houses over 100,000 plants collected from all over the world. “space garden” explores the idea of how research undertaken by Eden Project could one day help in installing a biome on a spaceship or in a space station – or even in creating an autonomous ecosystem, a habitat for plants on the Moon or Mars. It also questions how zero or microgravity affects the growth of plants. Plants can grow even when not rooted in soil; they always grow in the direction of the light.

The artwork is a highly complex digital montage and recomposition of the many photos the artist took at the Eden Project. The pictures were stitched together to make the plants float in the air, and grow towards the two opposite light sources. The hexagonal geodesic structure behind the plants underscores the fact that all plants in space have to grow in an artificial atmosphere.