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This interactive piece, Secret Garden, is a “cyberdeck” that invites explorers into a mossy and magical landscape, showing that participation and attention can create meanings beyond discovery. The object is shaped like a laptop computer, where the visitor will lift up the lid to reveal a touchscreen monitor, playing a hand-drawn animation of the little creature figurines living their lives. The visitor can also write down a wish/message to leave in a moss-filled receptacle, and pick out a star from the star-jar to take home with them. The visitor’s act of witnessing, contributing, and partaking is the mechanism of uncovering the nature of the space, allowing its playful creature inhabitants to come flying into life. Making “inputs” into the system unlocks its confessions and wonders.