Over the past few months, I've been working closely with proto~ and A4 Arts Foundation to reimagine their foyer space, expanding its temporal and spatial potential as a site of engagement. Here, some of our early concept models in cardboard. _ We borrow the language of the garden to think through a new spatiality. Gardens are places for wandering and discovery; moving amongst tall trees, brushing against foliage and flowers. proto~’s new store exhibits fragments and offcuts of artworks along tree-like formations of shelves. A garden also offers moments of pause, sitting on the ground under a canopy of trees. A large communal table becomes a central spatial object around which people gather, share and talk. _ Last slide: Sennefer’s Garden in Egypt, 1410 BC – 1829 AC. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ In the depicted garden, a courtyard shaded with vines occupies a central position, directing visitors from the main entrance to the villa. The building is surrounded by a lush garden with rows of trees with shallow pools inhabited by ducks and lotus blossoms. A high clay wall encloses the garden, the villa accessed by boat from the river. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Originally a fresco painted on the walls of Tomb of the Vines near Luxor in Egypt, it survives as a copy made in the 19th century by Ippolito Rosellini. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ @proto.a4 @a4artsfoundation