Cura’s Garden - Ben Thorp Brown illustration reclaiming the ordinary and elevating

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Cura’s Garden - Ben Thorp Brown illustration reclaiming the ordinary and elevatingIn 2023, American artist Ben Thorp Brown opened Curas Garden, a long term, immersive exhibition set in the medieval garden of Kunsthal Gent, a former Carmelite monastery. Expanding on the Roman myth of Cura, the project brings together a theatrical assortment of trees and other flora, fog, sculpture, and soundelements that cohere into a dense, indeterminate sensorial experience. This richly illustrated volume, organized around the seasons, features