Mireille Rosner

Performed at dawn on the first day of spring, It couldn’t be any other way is a personal act of care in which a large pile of soil, resting on a picnic blanket, is offered as top dressing to a particular patch of lawn at a public park. Both a ritual of acceptance and an act of gardening, It couldn’t be any other way submits to the earth’s ability to absorb, transform and nourish. It is an act of compassion performed through deep, physical labour.