At the heart of the Anca Poterașu Gallery landscaping composition stands the key plant Vitex agnus-castus, a species whose presence evokes one of the most celebrated landscapes in classical literature. In Plato's Phaedrus (230b), Socrates pauses beneath the shade of a flowering tree and exclaims:
"By Here, a fair resting-place, full of summer sounds and scents. Here is this lofty and spreading plane-tree, and the agnus castus high and clustering, in the fullest blossom and the greatest fragrance; and the stream which flows beneath the plane-tree is deliciously cold to the feet."
The REwildSCAPE concept takes this Platonic vision as its point of departure, imagining the garden as a place of reflection, dialogue, encounter, and intellectual exchange. Designed as a resilient and biodiverse ecosystem, the landscape will provide habitat for birds, pollinators, butterflies, and other beneficial species while offering visitors an atmosphere of contemplation and creative effervescence. More than an exterior amenity, the garden becomes an extension of the gallery's curatorial mission: a living work where ecology, culture, scholarship, and artistic imagination converge.
