MODERN NATURE

In 1986 Derek Jarman discovered he was HIV positive and decided to make a garden at his cottage on the barren coast of Dungeness.Mod ern Nature is both a diary of the garden and a meditation by Jarman on his own life: his childhood, his time as a young gay man in t he 1960s, his renowned career as an artist, writer and film-maker. It is at once a lament for a lost generation, an unabashed celebr ation of gay sexuality, and a devotion to all that is living.