The Garden of Eden throbs with the most delectable brew of emotions - heaving as both parable and paradigm; sighing as sign and signifier – offering rhythms of innocence and experience that find purpose only in their polarity. ‘Eden’ is an anagram of ‘need’: a fitting logograph given that desire snakes its way through the Biblical tale of Paradise, at first illuminating the light of hope and bounty for Adam and Eve but which, ultimately, sucks them in to the shadows of dereliction and displacement.