<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>I was in an actual rain forest in Costa Rica years ago, and in March of this year I visited the <span tabindex="-1" id=":1ew.1" style class="">Edenic</span> rain forest in Singapore. Before the middle of my walk through it, I walked back and out of this theme park. I was amazed how cheesy and awful it was. <br><br></div>On the other hand, I found the other half of the botanical space, the part that housed desert plants interspersed with amazing sculptures, wonderful, magical and devoid of artificial effects.<br><br></div>Ciao,<br></div>Murat<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 10:08 AM, Patrick Keilty <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:p.keilty@utoronto.ca" target="_blank">p.keilty@utoronto.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">----------empyre- soft-skinned space----------------------<br>
Related to our discussion, I just wanted to share Natasha Myer's essay<br>
"Edenic Apocalypse: Singapore’s End-of-Time Botanical Tourism":<br>
<a href="https://www.academia.edu/12783355/Edenic_Apocalypse_A_Photo-essay_of_Singapores_End-of-Time_Botanical_Tourism" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.academia.edu/12783355/Edenic_Apocalypse_A_Photo-essay_of_Singapores_End-of-Time_Botanical_Tourism</a><br>
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I recently visited Singapore's Gardens By the Bay -- an eco-capitalist<br>
tourist trap. This is government and corporate sponsored "plant art"<br>
on a massive scale, showing how plant art can be taken up as part of<br>
an argument for eco-friendly capitalism.<br>
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Best,<br>
<br>
Patrick Keilty<br>
Assistant Professor<br>
Faculty of Information<br>
Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies<br>
University of Toronto<br>
<a href="http://www.patrickkeilty.com/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.patrickkeilty.com/</a><br>
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