"And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.”

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- Genesis 2:9

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Garden of Eden is a comment on the availability of life saving, or life enhancing medications that have been revoked by health care systems due to their expense. The piece refers to the Biblical, “garden of God”, where according to some religious texts is a paradisaical abode of the immortals, where sickness and death were unknown. Although the hypothesis is one of legend, our physical health is in a constant state of flux due to the inherent rapacity of, Big Pharma a controlling other, that yields effective medications for terminal or chronic illnesses at a cost. These costs are often unacceptable or unobtainable and therefore patients are denied treatment. 

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Each Vial represents a certain medication, and the usage of words is coherent in it’s idealism. Words that almost conjure up magic potions or elixirs for the mind, body and spirit. Without the inherent greed of Pharmaceutical companies, innumerable diseases could be treated effectively, and their availability would not come into question. The morality of business over nurture, is by its own definition cynical and unjust.