Suzanne Craviari 

A Contaminated Garden of Our Own

If sage, which has traditionally been recommended to relieve hormonal complaints, is grown in contaminated soil, it becomes both healing and harmful. In A contaminated garden of our own, Suzanne Craviari investigates from an ecofeminist perspective the ambiguity of medicinal herbs when sown in polluted land.

For a collective sowing workshop she organised to highlight this phenomenon, Craviari designed a gardening cloth. On the non-woven, anti-root fabric, embroidery in green viscose rayon tells the story of the herbs, which can be planted in the round holes. The embroidery aims to draw attention to ecological health, which encompasses human and environmental well-being. Craviari graduated from the Design Academy Eindhoven master’s programme with the project.

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Photos by Ronald Smits, Suzanne Craviari andAnna Favaretto