RHIZOME
RHIZOME is a collaborative study of the plants that make up our local ecology. Through seasonal workshops, events and experimentation, RHIZOME embraces the ideologies of horizontal growth, lateral thinking and the interconnectedness of all things.
RHIZOME is a project co-created by Hayley O'Byrne (Carmel Floral) and Jaime McCuaig (GUNNAR).
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HEDGE
A RHIZOME Workshop
May 23 -24, 2026
TORONTO
HEDGE is a two-day study in boundary, density, and the social life of plants.
Working with seasonal materials, participants will construct a diptych of two large-scale floral installations that reference the hedge as both form and concept. Existing as both barrier and habitat, the hedge is a threshold that demarcates space while simultaneously holding it.
Across two sessions, we will approach this form at different scales and orientations:
On Day 1, a large free-standing and site-responsive installation considers the hedge as landscape: horizontal, continuous, and sprawling.
On Day 2, composed along a table, we will reimagine the hedge as an intimate and interior environment. The magnified cross-section, re-authored by a study in subtlety, gesture and restraint, invites us to shift from a macro to micro perspective.
Materials will be harvested from local sources, with a focus on invasive species harvested in accordance with their life cycles. In this context, “invasive” is held as a shifting designation—one that invites consideration of adaptation, naturalization, and the porous boundaries between belonging and exclusion.
HEDGE treats arrangement as a mode of inquiry. Through acts of cutting, gathering, and composing, we will engage in questions of border and permeability, authorship and collaboration, and the ways in which form emerges from mutual entanglement. The resulting works are not fixed objects but temporary conditions—dense, unstable, and alive to their materials.