Gradient Garden is an interactive installation composed of 192 hand-folded origami tulips arranged in a cascading rainbow gradient across a handmade pegboard. Each flower rests on wooden dowels at varying heights, creating a shifting field of color, texture, and depth. Visitors are invited to gently pick up, hold, rearrange, and return the flowers, allowing the garden to subtly change through touch and interaction. The work explores care, participation, and the relationship between structured systems and soft, human gestures.

The piece was first exhibited during Touch the Art, a tactile group exhibition centered around accessibility and physical engagement with artworks. Alongside the installation, the work included a community origami-folding component where visitors contributed hand-folded flowers to the growing field. Through this collective process, Gradient Garden became not only an artwork to experience, but a shared act of making, handling, and returning.