life in a container can be dull sometimes...but then again you have days here in Platoon when everything around you, suddenly, starts to bloom.











like the other day for instance... when i´ve been unexpectedly introduced to Megumi Fukuda (installation artist & photographer), and to her beautiful never fading artificial red tulips.














a delightful experience i have to say, one that made our courtyard look like never before...the contrast between the military imagery and the flowers was definitely striking.














Megumi explained how her project „eternal garden“ started in her grandparents place back in japan. in a once well tended garden which now lays abandoned...
where memories of her childhood blended with those of her parents.













there she had the vision of a garden with flowers forgetful of the seasons, which go on blooming regardless winter and beyond spring: “ lashed by rain and covered in snow“ they will always stay the same, like a still in time „unable to change in the midst of changig“...a rather poetic way to defy time...“unable to change, so... they just don´t“












Megumi kept moving around totally absorbed in her thoughts whilst gracefully placing her flowers near Chin Chin´s „Mädchen“...















for few hours Platoon was transformed in an idyllic landscape, and for that time it seemed the flowers would have stayed forever...















until a gentle wind came blowing...the sun went down...last pictures zack zack...
and was already time to pack














*we would like to thank again Megumi for the wonderful experience and maybe who knows, we might do it again next time when Platoon is covered in snow.....