World without Torture
This garden is inspired by Q-CAT’s aim to end torture and complicity in torture.
Visitors can walk alongside high-security fencing into a cell. Wrapped around the walkway and cell is an “ecological succession”, the natural colonisation of plants on land that has been damaged or destroyed. Here the land has been bombed, but in time it will heal itself.
The front of the garden depicts an idealised World without Torture, with a deep, still pool and horizontal concrete posts that have been trodden underfoot. The planting features white cultivars of plants first introduced by Quakers. A stone figure releases a dove, with further doves depicted in wire embroidery taking flight across the chain link fence.