Salad Garden Gate

Located 3 blocks to the Northeast of the INSPIRE Garden on the corner of Hayward and Denmore Avenues, this garden is the centerpiece of the project. Raised beds planted with greens, lettuce, tomatoes, onions, cucumbers, radishes, beets, and cabbage. A sculpture of collard green leaves. The vein pattern of the leaves is made of plasma-cut steel with green acrylic panels tiled in to create the stained glass casting light patterns on the ground. The modular design uses three patterns. There are no accidental choices. The greens leaves are traced from three sourced photos: an heirloom varietal, one grown in the artists’ garden this year, and one generated by AI with the prompt: “A photo of the perfect collard green”.

This sculpture is titled “Demeter”, named after the Greek goddess of the harvest.