Wild Seed, by Cecilia Germaine

The Botanical Baroque Garden

The artist is disguised as a spruce in a holt, her feet buried in the fertile soil of the Botanical Garden in Uppsala. The small spruce slowly raises her feet above the surface and starts to examine her surroundings reading the signs attached to the trees of the park. After a while she starts for a walk out in the geometrically ordered Baroque Garden holding still in front of different plants and arrangements on her way. A secret longing for something unknown guides the young spruce around. There are the akin in hedges of spruces although cut down to conformity with an unfamiliar and harsh geometry, and in the midst of it all a small plant of unknown origin awakens the love of our Spruce. She lays an egg in front of her audience in a sensual act of birth, and so she plants this wild seed in a flowerbed near bye. A fairy tale without words, the performance itself is a wild seed growing into strange thoughts about the possibilities of our nature.