When we combine vegetation in a natural landscape with the memory of our loved ones, they come to exist outside of ourselves as well. In the Garden of the Righteous Among the Nations near Jerusalem, the trees have the task of bearing special names in perpetuity, a testament that all memories in the world deserve a garden.
In 2010 in New York, artist Dominique Gonzales-Foerster set up Chronotopes and Dioramas, three full-scale models depicting tropical, desert and North Atlantic landscapes sprinkled with books and flying papers. These are clear symbols of man’s pact with his memory, a pact signed with no end in sight.