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Modern Nature by Melissa Zeiger - Coggle Diagram

- - - - The garden is Jarman's life aesthetic (The garden, Derek Jarman's garden, Modern Nature)
  - - - Jarman queers the garden, calling it a memorial, because both mourning and sex are not opposite. In a poem, Jarman remembers his dear friend Howard and recalls their sexual connection, a rare element in eterosexual elegy
  - - - According to Ensor, we should aknowledged ending rather than existing in fear of them. We should train ourselves how to steward within this terminal temporality
- - - - Derek liked roughness in his garden and in his house (crosses, amulets,..). His garden is aggressive and vulnerable: he's able to create a dialogue with monumentality through the use of rot and decay (potential beauty of decay in rust, lichens, rotten wood)
        
        Jarman's attitude was subversive in the Thatcher era: he bought occasionally and reproduced in his garden plants. His garden evokes the worst products of our world: detritus of war, pollution by radiation, garbage, but it's also a place of astonishing beauty and erotism
- - - - His garden is also semiotic, so their legible signs are the methods, the aesthetics, and the specific details. In Jubilee Elizabeth I talks about 'the codes and the countercodes, the secret language of flowers'
        
        E.g: the crambe plant, which survives because of its extreme long taproot. It displays a rough splendor (in Derek Jarman's Garden there are many photos showing the crambe's development). In the 90s it became a queer point of pride for his strangeness, and also it refuses the traditional hierarchy of plants (at the top roses and expensive plants)
      - While in gardening there are some fantasies of purity (ecological, horticultural, artistic), Jarman engages with forms of mobility and uncontrolled proliferation: nuclear power and AIDS virus on one hand, his garden' rhizomes and self seeding plants on the other.
        
        He's developing a new idea of gardening that doesn't attempt to manage the risk / provide a solution. Jarman offers a terminal condition to be lived in, to be exploited and shared.
        The garden is a form of pleasure, not salvation.