Siân Davey, The Garden V, 2022
One can’t help, when thinking of gardens, to think of the garden. Eden has haunted Western cultures for millennia, representing both what we have lost and the promise of what we might again attain if we behave. The story also lays the groundwork for some of our most frustratingly pervasive stereotypes about women: that they are sly and grasping, that they will – wittingly or not – enter into cahoots with evil and lead you astray.