Botanic Gardens symbolise the tension between the human desire to admire nature and to control it. In this video, recorded in the Adelaide Botanic Garden, we see the different ways in which water inhabits the interfaces between the natural and the manufactured. Now and then, we catch a glimpse of a reflection or shadow of the on-lookers, the passers-by, the lives that impact on everything they touch. The text is derived by thesaurus substitution from samples taken from the Adelaide Botanic Garden website.