This sculpture celebrates the 10th anniversary of the ‘Veg Out Community Garden’.
It was created by Nina Sanadze, a resident artist at St Kilda Bowling Club Studios (at Veg Out) with direct involvement of the gardeners.
Consisting of ninety-six coloured resin tiles, with 84 portraits of past and present gardeners, each tile carries a personal story.
Nina's posed this question: 'At the moment, what is the main mission or accomplishment of your life?' Participants wrote their answers on their portraits. These, together with some personal objects of their choice, were then embedded into the tiles.

‘Veg Out Community Garden’s is a unique long-term project within City of Port Phillip, located next to Luna Park in St Kilda, Melbourne. For the last 10 years Veg Out Community Gardens has attracted and brought together people from all walks of life. It became a celebration of a strong community spirit, kinship, conservation movement, and another St Kilda icon. It is a fertile ground for all types of artistic endeavour, where skills and responsibility are shared, where environment is nurtured, and where equity and philanthropy can flourish.

Nina would like to thank:
Peter Treble, Mark Rasmussen, Rob Taylor , the members of Veg Out Garden who participated in this project , Electrolight , Linda Gibbs, Jo & Lucy Treble, Mark Shiff. The City of Port Phillip for partly funding this project through the Cultural Development Fund