Privacy Plots II: Flower Garden 1970

Editor: So, this is Ivor Abrahams' "Privacy Plots II: Flower Garden" from the Tate collection. The bright colors give it this sort of dreamlike quality, but there's also something unsettling about how artificial it all feels. What do you make of it? Curator: Unsettling is spot on! It's like a manicured dream, isn't it? Abrahams was obsessed with the artificiality of the English garden, this desire to control nature. Do those jarring colors hint at something lurking beneath the surface of suburbia? Editor: That’s interesting, I hadn’t thought about it that way. Curator: It's all suggestion. The artist uses beauty to make us question beauty, and maybe even our own ideas of perfection. Now that's a clever trick, don't you think? Editor: Definitely gives you a lot to think about!