Maddison Colvin: Perpetual Garden Mario Picardo the Australian artist has straddled

the Australian artist has straddled various modes of performance and visual arts over the last decade

Through theoretical texts

including its close partnership with Herman Miller

optimistic youth

Maddison Colvin: Perpetual Garden Mario Picardo the Australian artist has straddledPhotographs, scans, paintings, drawings, and an essay by Maddison Colvin From Slow Worm: "This book captures time and transience in the garden via text and image. Flowers silently bloom in the night, rushing towards death. Plants transubstantiate, are torn out, emerge anew, writhe with insects. A garden wall keeps in a scent, keeps out a lover. Seeds travel continents on the soles of boots, in Hatshepsuts barques, and in the pockets of priests and