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Valentina Berthelon

1810-18.10 - Garden of Eden

main project for the semester topic "Urban Nature"

2:20 min, 3D animation, 2021

Throughout the middle ages, the people of Europe believed that the original home of mankind was in a garden, where the climate was always mild and the trees flowered continuously. The Fall and Expulsion were held responsible for the loss of knowledge of the natural world, the different seasons, the need to work in the fields, for pain, for sorrow, and for death. Nobody knew whether the Garden of Eden had survived the Flood but it seems to have been assumed that an earthly paradise still existed. With the fifteenth Century voyages, hopes ran high that the garden might be rediscovered, and Columbus believed that he had identified its location in the New World.