Jennifer Vanderpool's Hysterical Paradise is a Technicolor, varied media, indoor garden installation that germinates a dialogue between allure and entrapment, seduction and demise. 

The potential polarizing of ideals and realities is exemplified both in form and content in Hysterical Paradise.  The conceptual compost heaps in her garden are collections of the artist's past.  From the heaps of refuse and memory emerge her topography of flowers made of plastic bags, duct tape, and bubble wrap blooming among towers of bedazzled Starbuck's cup holders and to-go containers that extrude viscous trails laden with glittery treasures and shiny beads.  

Her playful and vivid compositions serve as pleasant distractions to the daunting realities of wanton consumption. A darker truth lurks in the bushes of this Fool's Paradise as the piles of discarded remnants threaten to overtake us.  However the capacity for renewal lies in transforming the wisdom of our errors into a new mythology.