I put apolitical in quotes there for a reason. Likely to be perceived as neutral, not politically active or making any particular statement. But that perception

I put apolitical in quotes there for a reason. Likely to be perceived as neutral, not politically active or making any particular statement. But that perception isn't from nowhere and doesn't mean it's not political. You can refute any specific thing I say about a garden or whatever. But there will always be things. Everyone has recreational access, but does everyone have recreational time? Can everyone get the paints needed to recreate it? etc. Something is apolitical from a person's perspective when it embeds their political assumptions, basically. It's not necessarily wrong to describe something that way, but that assertion needs to carry with it a context within which it is neutral. Whether a specific viewer will receive it as political is a fact about the observer, not the piece of art.