Twin Cultivation

(with Michael McCabe and Rosabel Tan)

2022

Presented as a miniature garden, this temporary installation invites members of the public to

sign up for a ‘harvesting’ session. In each session, two strangers enter the garden together, and are

invited to unearth a ceramic vegetable to gift to the other person to take home.

This work builds on Cindy’s interest in the relationships that Chinese migrant communities can

and could have as tangata Tiriti, and seeks to create space for us to collectively consider the histo-

ries of the land, the many people we share this city with, and the possible futures we could create.

The title, Twin Cultivation, is a nod to the idea of companion planting: the idea that different

plants grow stronger together than apart.

Through each harvesting session, we hope to create unexpected collisions: conversations that

might not have happened otherwise, the discovery of shared histories, and — at the end — a con-

stellation of keepsakes across Tāmaki Makaurau, spread like seeds in the wind.

In total, 240 hand-made works were created and gifted across the two sites in Britomart and

Panmure.

SATELLITES

BRITOMART & PANMURE TRAIN STATIONS, AUCKLAND

JUNE – JULY 2022

HTTPS://WWW.TWINCULTIVATION.CO.NZ/