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| | Putting the Garden Into the Machine: On Brakhage's The Garden of Earthly Delights |
 | | In The Garden of Earthly Delights, Brakhage took pieces of plants he encountered in his everyday life, arranged the assortments of leaves, seeds, stamens, roots and flowers into patterns between two pieces of 35mm film, and optically printed the results. |
 | | His painted panels are of exquisite beauty; their jewel-like colours and translucency depict the world as a dreamlike garden whose innocence, sanctity and ethereality is slowly distorted into dark, nightmarish visions full of surrealist horrors as Man becomes increasingly drawn into a life of sensual pleasures. |
 | | Rather, it is a handmade object, made with love and pride, about the follies of man. As such, it is a little piece of this world's earthly delights to treasure forever...or at least until the print's physical demise. |
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