Background of Proposal: Conceived under the proposal name Deep-->(forest), a cross-disciplinary collaboration was set up between Marc Bohlen, artist/engineer and architect Natalie Tan to investigate the non-utilitarian. We expressed an optimistic attitude towards the contemporary environment, in which landscape, technology, infrastructure and nature would intertwine. The International Garden Festival interested us greatly because of its particular attention to the venue of being 'garden'. Man's anthropometrical urge over his organic physical environment has been to domesticate, tame and occasionally let wild. We wanted to place our discussion within the ideas of the maniacally controlled bonsai with its meticulously placed rocks that imagines a garden in its totality, to the culminating point of the Netherlands's territorial destiny as presented by MVRDV's Dutch Hamburger in Hanover, 2000. We were interested in questioning the malleability, constructability and artificiality of nature in an age where land, air, water is privatized. We started out by being very impressed by Quebec's Ministry of Natural Resources' statistics: 750,000 sq km of continuous Boreal forest, 653 species of Quebec wildlife, including 199 fish species, 21 amphibian species, 16 species of reptiles, 326 bird species and 91 species of mammals and an additional 25,000 insect species. We concluded at that point that a Quebecois forest was always in flux. As such, we proposed to remake the condition of the Forest in the Garden by mixing the real with the imagined and improbable. On our allocated strip of the Garden, we would have a tight weave of plant species with botanic descriptions displayed next to each species. A set of electronic tablets would be deployed within the Garden and display these facts with a believable tone. These depictions would change as the season progressed. These narratives would be accompanied by audio-sensory representations of insect, bird and animal calls that were not indigeneous to this region. In the mind of the beholder, this garden could become more diverse than any actual Quebecois forest could be.