Garden Don’t Care is located through the alleyway behind Unit 17 Gallery at 2954 West 4^th Avenue in Vancouver on the unceded and continually asserted xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and Səl̓ílwətaʔɬ territories. Members of the collective include Derya Akay, Vivienne Bessette, Conor Fanning, Rowan Fanning-Blackwater, Julia Feyrer, Tobin Gibson, Salem Sharp, Emma Sise, and Kurtis Wilson.

Commissioned for the Summer 2020 Issue of The Capilano Review, Garden Don’t Care’s collaboratively produced drawings, collages, and exquisite-corpse texts creatively document the group’s work collectively tending to a garden: cultivating vegetables together, cooking together, eating together, and hosting workshops and impromptu gatherings. The playful experiments that result serve as a timely reminder of the creative sustenance provided by community.

Purchase a print or digital copy of Issue 3.41 (Summer 2020) here.