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Welcome to Thank You, Garden. This garden is a webzine created by Nami Kim and Eloisa Guerrero, members of Distributed Web of Care residency (P2P Festival) hosted by in C/O Digital Festival in Berlin. Answering the urgency for a decentralised, more caring and intimate Internet, the zine manifests it to be a communal web garden where the artists share knowledge and ideas in the web discourse, as well as gratitude to each other. The zine features projects of feloow residents and hosts, and also contains Thank You letters that they exchanged in the group. At the 10th Dec 2022 in Berlin, Nami and Eloisa ran a hand-made webzine workshop with a HTML & CSS skill-sharing session for participants.

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.)

🌳References🌳
Font-family:
- Millimetre (Designed by Jérémy Landes),
- Happy-Times (Designed by Lucas Le Bihan)

Tree with apples CSS reference:
- Jonathan Huffman, CodePen

SVG images in the garden:
All made by Nami Kim, with Adobe Illustrator

Featured projects from P2P Residents:
Max Fowler, Jake Advincula, Nami Kim, E.L. Guerrero, Sam Griffith, Vivian Chan, Su Yu Hsin, Rachel Chak, Alessandro Longo, Alice Yuan Zhang

Workshop Participants (10 Dec 2022):
Stephanie, Andreaz, Younhee, Jendrik, Timur, Alessandro, Anna

Thank You, Garden (Under Landscaping)

This garden used to be filled by many colorful images but we have decided to do consturction this page to make it more accessible for people who are in poor Internet connection, or use screen reader.

This red Camellia have several meanings in it.

You can walk rightside to see more in the garden.

I don't know the name of the flowers here.

She likes to create a low hand-made webpages.

She explores sentimental experience on the web.

Thank You, Garden

User Sentimental eXperience
by Nami Kim

A flower petal has just touched tip of my nose.

Welcome to Thank You, Garden. This garden is created by Nami Kim and Eloisa Guerrero, residents of Distributed Web of Care residency hosted by in C/O Digital in Berlin.

Project
by Eloisa

Works with identity, memory, and nostalgia in physical and virtual spaces.

handmade web and alternative ways of mark-making

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

Workshop participant:
Timur Fattahov

Workshop participant:
Stephanie Marie Cedeño &
Andreaz

Workshop participant:
Jendrik &
Younhee

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

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