The same recursion which reveals the mutually limiting identities of the arboretum, also exaggerates the arboretum as a landscape of contradiction. The physicalized arboretum neglects its internal multivalence between the natural and the artificial; its own role as a living museum in which its trees, meant to be instructive of their natural behaviours, are in reality manufactured artifacts. curated under watchful eyes. However, the mirror too is a contradiction, which distorts as much as it reflects the image which it receives.
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