A Thousand Knots KU Leuven
We are surrounded by traces of the past, a veritable garden of ghosts. Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet, 2017. In my garden, colonial legacies reside in the hydrangeas and japonicas. They were originally brought back from Japan by Philipp Franz von Siebold who worked for the Dutch East India Company. An Acanthus mollis, whose leaves characterise Corinthian columns, continues to spread through a network of subterranean ...