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The Greek scientist Archimedes discovered the principle of buoyancy, and Marsden uses the fragile balloons to reflect life, as all of us grow, dream, then eventually die. We can read many symbols into the white balloons. Marsden notes that they signify us, our hopes and dreams and ambitions that rise and last only a short time. Expended, they lie in the field and we wait for the cycle to begin again. The images were made in her father’s old vegetable garden. Even that has gone, only a vague appearance of the rows and the tap remaining. Nature has taken back its own.