Thank You, Garden is now under experimental construction with a mission of Web accessibility.

As you see the page now, here it's filled by many colorful images but we have decided to do consturction this page to make it more accessible for people who who have poor Internet connection or use screen readers.

Our current experiment is on text-based browser environment where images and Javascripts can't be loaded.

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Welcome to Thank You, Garden. This garden is a webzine created by Nami Kim and Eloisa Guerrero, members of P2P Distributed Web of Care residents hosted by in C/O Digital Festival in Berlin. Answering the urgency and desire for a decentralised, more caring and intimate internet, the zine manifests a communal web garden where the artists share their gratitude to their hosts and fellow residents for holding a warm, collective space. The zine features projects of some residents and hosts, as well as Thank You letters to each other. In the festival, Nami and Eloisa ran a HTML-based webzine workshop by integrateing HTML, CSS, and JavaScript-based live coding.
Nami is a web publisher who attempts to embrace daily sentiments in the digital interface. She publishes an experimental web page and an essay in her zine platform User Sentimental eXperience.
Eloisa is a media + software artist and developer who works with identity, memory, and nostalgia in physical and virtual spaces. She is interested in the handmade web and alternative ways of mark-making. (The workshop’s title is taken from the children’s book, “Thank You, Garden” by Liz Garton Scanlon, that celebrates the act of growing and cultivating gardens as a community.)

This is Cosmos sulphureus at the entrance of the garden. This is Cosmos sulphureus at the entrance of the garden.

Thank You, Garden

User Sentimental eXperience
by Nami Kim

Project
by Eloisa

garden.local
by Taeyoon Choi

Paeonia Drive
by Su Yu Hsin

PeachCloud & Bioregional Computing
by Max Fowler

Speculating about a better Internet
by Jake

Workshop Make your hand-made garden zine!
By Nami and Eloisa
P2P Festival at C/O Museum

Zine

Reincantamento
by Alessandro

Vivian Chan's project

Becoming infrastructure
by Alice Yuan Zhang

Sam Griffith's project

P2P Workshop participant:
Timur Fattahov

P2P Workshop participant:
Stephanie &
Andreaz

P2P Workshop participant:
Jendrik &
Younhee

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Dear Taeyoon and Barbara
The web today is occupied by superhighways. Surrounded by such infrastructure that forces me to drive speedy, I found it hard to look around people and the ecosystem near me . Running on the flawlessly paved roads, I used to pass by the fact that the world of web requires more respect and diversity. One day in the end of August 2022, I received a surprising email that I can be a member of P2P residency program, Distributed web of care. I still remember how I was excited to hear that news. Being in the group, I came to meet amazing peers. All of them have interestingly unique approaches. Out of the uniquenes, however, there are so many links to each other. This feeling of connection has become a huge inspiratoin. Hereby I want to say thank you, Taeyoon and Barbara, for holding P2P program. I wish your best :))

Warmly,
Nami

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Dear Nami,
I'd like to thank you for your user-sentimental experiences, I started reading the first one, "a room to zone out", and at first I felt like this project might not really be for me. I don't really like clicking. My mouse on my laptop is even a little broken, and clicking requires a bit of effort and sometimes doesn't work. I feel like if I wanted to zone out, I would often rather drink a tea than click. however, I still enjoyed exploring and seeing the subtle changes of the page, watching the table with the lamp go up and down, and then when I read the letter, and I read, "Now I want to say that we should justify and cherish every small moment and step. Bye, see you later." I felt this writing reaching my heart, and I felt my perception change. After that, when I read your letter titled "to be a fish manager", I related so deeply to your story of becoming energized and more present once you became a fish manager. It spontaneously brought me to question how I can also become more of a fish manager in other aspects of my life too, and what conditions create that caring attention -- even beyond how I browse. I also have experienced that "fish manager" energy, and would be curious to feel more of it. . After being so inspired by the first two letters, when I opened the third, "Console yourself: a chocolate box", I felt curious, attentive and ready to read the third letter. It struck me how nice it was that the website filled the whole screen, and even separate from the clicking (which still was somewhat tense, with my half-working mouse) I thought, this is such a nice way to read someone's writing, and holds my attention in such a different way than looking at a medium article, or even a blog, where the writing fades into a stream of other writing, in similar forms. I considered at first just reading the letter without actually doing "the exercise", but then I felt, this is a genuine ritual, and I will participate, and I enjoyed opening the inspector, and offering a specific encouragement to myself through the console. I was glad to take a moment for this. Further, I was glad for the prompt of writing a thank you letter. I think it awakened a bit of the "fish manager" in me, in how I could read through the work of the other participants in the residency. I felt more connected to the residency and to the other participants because of this. The thank you garden, and the prompt to actually write to each other with a thank you letter, bridged some type of distance for me, to remember each person typing on the other side of the screen and acknowledge our connection in this moment/constellation. Earlier today, I thanked someone from warmshowers for storing a bag for me by buying them a chocolate. I also felt more connected to them after that exchange. Sometimes to me "thank you" seems like people are thanking each other for things that don't really need a thank you, but nice to remember it can also be connecting and nice.
Thank you, see you later, bye,
Max

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Dear Nami,
Thank you for taking care of the web garden.
I am looking forward to strolling in the garden together!

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Dear Taeyoon and Barbara,
I want to start off by giving you my heartfelt thanks for organizing the residency. This space was such an open, inspiring one that really helped me grow my Indigenized Internet project and broaden my mind in terms of care, the web, and other topics part of the residency’s subject matter. This residency made me feel accepted, understood, and nurtured. Thank you for fostering an environment that encouraged so much growth. Hoping to work with you again for future projects, and I’m so excited to see what future C/O residencies will bring.
Sincerely,
Jake Advincula

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To re-enchant the world means to create new meanings and new alliances to shift our understanding of reality. The concept of re-enchantment has been the gravitational point of my research for a long time now. After some years, one starts to doubt the power of a certain idea or even the overall scope of telling these stories. A simpler interpretation of re-enchantment, one that I really like, says that re-enchanting means learning to look at the world with different eyes and abandoning the present's cloak of cynicism and sadness. Albeit, this does not mean embracing blind and naive optimism but rather developing empathetic rationality and renewed savoir-faire. Yet, what remains of this idea beyond its theoretical elaboration? This problem has stayed with me for some time now. Being part of the P2P residency, however, gave me the bits of a solution. This experience created a field of resonance, where ideas, desires, hopes, and projects were exchanged with a generosity of the mind that is not so common. Even more, I saw these human beings, coming from all over the world, re-enchanting their own reality and adding new semiotic strata to this concept. To paraphrase Taeyoon, a distributed web of enchantments. This was the Peer-to-Peer residency for me and I wanna thank you all for this.
With gratitude,
Alessandro

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Dear Alice,
I know we didn’t really interact over the course of the residency, but I just wanted to say that I really admire your work! Your ability to tie something as abstract and nebulous as technology to very concrete things such as grief and the natural world really astounds me. I’m really excited to see what else you’ll put out, and I can’t wait for all the insights that’ll come out of it! Hoping we can stay in touch even after the residency is over. Wishing you all the best and success in your endeavors.
Sincerely,
Jake Advincula

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Growing up, I would wake up at 4:00 or 5:00 in the early morning and quietly go to the family den where the computer was, so I could dial-up to the Internet, totally undisturbed. It would make me think that I was the only one who was awake at that hour, but still, to my surprise, someone in the same city, or a totally different part of the world would be, too. When you think you are completely and utterly alone, there is always someone out there that feels the same. That's why the first thing we say when we program something on the computer is "Hello, world". We want to let the world know that we are here, that we exist, and hope that it will reach someone, somewhere, someday.

As a child, I liked being on the Internet because for the first time in my life, I could carve out a corner for myself, that I could cosy up into: a small plot of land that was abstract and immaterial, yet felt very real, even if intangible; someplace I could call my own. I found that many others felt the exact same thing. And then the Internet stopped being this place to be alone in.

In this residency, we each said our greetings and introductions, but as we close, instead of saying "goodbye", I think it is more important to say "thank you". Together, we formed a space to be ourselves in, to know and understand one another, and conspired to imagine better worlds, a more caring Internet. I think a community garden is a metaphor that fits this best: we've laid the foundation, and have each planted our hopes. The garden will keep growing, into something bigger that will sustain us and others for the future to come.

I have a lot of gratitude to you, Taeyoon and Barbara, for allowing all of us to come together like this, and to all my fellow residents, for sharing and planting seeds.

And to Nami, I am also very grateful to you, that you were someone, somewhere, someday, that I was able to reach. Thank you for reaching back out. :)

Thank you, all. :)
Eloisa