THE GLASSHOUSE REQUEST
In the hothouses there are hybrids, entanglements of growth that have come into being under the canopies. Passing through a mosaic of climates; arid to moist, dense to sparse, everything flourishes and everything breeds. The mystique of worldly landscapes boxed-bound and miniaturised, unfolds in a series of laboratory environs. The Glasshouse conserves well kept specimens of unique creative growth from distant and extrinsic sources. Cultivating, displaying and entrapping – living – other-worldly phenomena under the refractory glare of sun-beaten glass.
In building a glasshouse a person might bring together a collection of vibrant occupants to dwell and perspire within. As such is the following contributions from writers and artists alike. This translucent box does play two tricks simultaneously, enacting cyclic growth and decay and the inter-meshing of organic matter. But is yet all restrained, constricted and purposefully modified into specified holding cells, castrated from the roaming world. Through glass we approach this visible dissection of a microcosm, forestalling a bodily immersion which we crave. In print do words and visuals gain this transparent film of allusion lifted from paper, a lens that withholds yet with focus, allures.
Compacted and contained in The Glasshouse Request you will find growths from the following occupants. A plane of glass to magnify may help in reading.
Lewis Den Hertog
Yen Yi Lee
James Clegg
Harriet Walker
Richard Taylor
Holly Knox Yeoman
Catriona Black-Dinham
Suzanne van der Lingen
Staxton Foley
Emma Drye
Oliver Benton
Cate Smith
Petr Nehyba
Sarah Leslie
Kate-Bowe O’Brien
Lia Marie Hillers
Niall Webb
Larisa Butenko
Joseph Priestley
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