about “life is a garden”

☆ “The self as a puzzle: to be deciphered… the self as a project: to be built” [source unknown].
ripped from joan watson’s notes on art historical combines 

“Writing has nothing to do with signifying. It has to do with surveying, mapping, even realms that are yet to come.”
Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus, p 25 

life is a garden to be nutured, to be conscious of. to sit in, to dig. to unearth, to weed and till. 🌿

this rhizome, like all, is layered, messy. sometimes it’s even fun! sometimes it’s boring!
“life is a garden” is an active exercise of contextualizing my practice through a web of personal memory and peripheral history. 
this section of my website will be a constant work in progress, date and timestamped at the bottom whenever changes are made. sometimes it’ll be a little hard to read. that is the nature of it all: its a W.I.P.! enjoy :) 



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★ email: ayaka333takao@gmail.com

last edited 6/16/25