‘Picturing Paradise’ looked at places where people have re-created notions ‘paradise’ for themselves in their personal homes and gardens - these bubbles of existence away from the reality of the everyday.
Is there some common denominator to what we consider essential ingredients to constitute an ideal place? For instance do most personal paradises have a garden? Water? Trees? If so, what kind of trees? How do these conceptions relate to ideas handed down through pictorial conventions and media images? Do they become carriers of our dreams and aspirations? And finally, are our attempts at perfection always doomed to failure?
The work was presented in the form of a slide show with a voice-over: a conversation between Lisa Le Feuvre and myself.