{"product_id":"pharmacopoeia","title":"Pharmacopoeia","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e''I planted a dog rose. Then I found a curious piece of driftwood and used this, and one of the necklaces of holey stones on the wall, to stake the rose. The garden had begun. I saw it as a therapy and a pharmacopoeia.'' \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In 1986 artist and filmmaker, Derek Jarman, bought Prospect Cottage, a Victorian fisherman''s hut on the desert sands of Dungeness. It was to be a home and refuge for Jarman throughout his HIV diagnosis, and it would provide the stage for one of his most enduring, if transitory projects - his garden. Conceived of as a ''pharmacopoeia'' - an ever-evolving circle of stones, plants and flotsam sculptures all built and grown in spite of the bracing winds and arid shingle - it remains today a site of fascination and wonder.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePharmacopoeia\u003c\/i\u003e brings together the best of Derek Jarman''s writing on nature, gardening and Prospect Cottage. Told through journal entries, poems and fragments of prose, it paints a portrait of Jarman''s personal and artistic reliance on the space Dungeness offered him, and shows the cycle of the years spent there in one moving collage.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''[Derek] made of this wee house, his wooden tent pitched in the wilderness, an artwork - and out of its shingle skirts, an ingenious garden - now internationally recognised. But, first and foremost, the cottage was always a living thing, a practical toolbox for his work'' Tilda Swinton, from her Foreword\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57306144407934,"sku":"NW9781784877330","price":11.67,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781784877330.jpg?v=1778514872","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/pharmacopoeia","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}