In Gardeners, botanical illustrations from naturalists’ guides are rendered outsized and theatrical. Systems of classification, often used to justify hierarchy, are reframed. In adjacent panels, two gardeners tend to a cactus using different (and equally ineffective) methods: one overwaters it, the other prods it with a hoe. Neither tactic is correct, yet the cactus grows regardless. What emerges is a kind of surplus: life exceeding the world meant to manage it.