Garden (2000) by Marc Quinn is a real botanical garden, full of plants and flowers from all over the world. They are displayed in full bloom, and are potentially eternal: the nearly 1000 specimens are immersed in twenty-five tons of liquid silicone kept at a constant temperature of -80˚ Celsius. They can neither grow or perish, an unreal dimension that cannot exist unless produced artificially. And though frozen, they produce an enchantment of continuous spring.
Marc Quinn: “The flowers, when they freeze, become pure image. They become an image of perfect flower, because in reality their matter is dead and they are suspended in a state of transformation between pure image and pure matter.”
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Silicon is a gray, metallic solid at temperatures below 1400 degrees Centigrade.
The gardens must be preserved in something else.
This is what the paper has to say about liqid sili-CONE. There is a big difference between silicone and silicon.
To homebru and batmanzurek, thanks for pointing this out.
The post has been corrected.
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