“When a bird flies through this garden, it doesn’t know it’s not allowed to go anywhere so it just goes everywhere,” says Es Devlin, tracing an imaginary flight with her hand across the sunlit space. “And we would have once been like that, before the Enclosure Acts and all that happened. So I think we long for the commons. We long to be reminded of systems greater than ourselves.”
That sense of connection vibrates through much of Devlin’s work. Artist, writer and stage designer,…
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