In the tension of the view, the garden is a small, lost arcadia.We, who sit in it, act as caryatids of an imperishable life.We lend ourselves to views, ever turned towards the restless interior.It is difficult to explain that even while in the garden, we are those outsideit.Staying a few days in Lapad, I build an audio-ambience made of records, notes andsensory fragments collected in, and shaped for the garden of Flora's home. Inthis arrangement, I draw in several other authors who spent time in the gardens,thought and wrote about them, and whose texts managed to squeeze between poorlyarranged clothes in an overfilled suitcase. The collection of poetic fragmentsthus takes the form of a kind of dialogue-noise that swells, grows and mergeswith the polyphony of the bay, to which it inevitably belongs.***Mia Ćuk is an artist who often takes on curatorial, organizational and editorialroles as aspects of her artistic practice. She studied at the Academy of Arts ofthe University of Novi Sad and at the University of Westminster in London. Herwork is found at the intersection of visual art and writing, and she alsoresearches literature, translation, cultural and social history, visualanthropology and media theory. Through her practice, she explores the notions ofeveryday life and time, archiving traces, sentiments, spaces, intimate and civicsurfaces through which she moves. She treats her works as fragments of apersistent and continuous sensibility rather than isolated projects.Recently, she was the art director of the Artget gallery at the Cultural Centerof Belgrade. She participated in the 59th October Salon in 2022, as well as inmany other exhibitions, programs and symposiums in Serbia and elsewhere. She isthe founder of the art space "Footnote - Center for Image and Text". She livesand works in Belgrade.