The Garden is a space where ritual, image, and environment converge. It brings together the tea ceremony and a landscape centered on a persimmon tree, where art unfolds in direct relation to its surroundings. Gesture, perception, and spatial experience move within a shared rhythm of attention.

The persimmon tree carries cultural memory across East Asia. Originating in China and later spreading to Japan and Korea, it is associated with seasonal cycles, agricultural labor, and everyday life. In Chinese culture, it symbolizes harmony and prosperity, while in Japan it is linked to autumn, transience, and the concept of mono no aware, an awareness of the fleeting nature of things and the beauty found in impermanence.

Within the tea house, these meanings are embodied through experience. The tea ceremony becomes a practice of attention, slowness, and precise gesture, reflecting time not as linear but cyclical, like the changing seasons. The persimmon landscape extends this idea into visual form.

Overall, the exhibition creates a unified field of attention in which the viewer enters a state of presence. Tea, space, image, and natural rhythm merge into a cyclical experience of time.