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Aug 17
GARDEN DESIGNERS ROUNDTABLE: ART OR GARDEN? Designed by ATLAS and Ford Lipschitz  at the 13th iteration of the Festival of Gardens at Reford Gardens in Quebec explores how wind affects our perception of landscape.  Fans behind lathe walls turn off and on.  The landscape changes as the flags blow or not.  The noise is also part of the experience…although I couldn’t include that here.   Most people think about art in the garden as a well placed sculpture or even a beautifully designed border, but what happens when artists and designers create a garden as art from the get go?  Do we consider it a garden or is it art? There are garden festivals  devoted to conceptual garden design that celebrate outdoor space as a possibility for creating ‘garden’ art on a large scale.  I’m a huge fan of these spaces as they challenge me as all great art does…to think.   They go beyond what we typically view as a garden, yet they incorporate plants, soil, hardscape, and found/built objects just as our own gardens do.  Sometimes they’re pretty, sometimes they’re not. Is this a garden or art or both?  Perhaps it’s neither and just odd.  Whatever the answer, it’s thought provoking.

GARDEN DESIGNERS ROUNDTABLE: ART OR GARDEN?

Designed by ATLAS and Ford Lipschitz  at the 13th iteration of the Festival of Gardens at Reford Gardens in Quebec explores how wind affects our perception of landscape.  Fans behind lathe walls turn off and on.  The landscape changes as the flags blow or not.  The noise is also part of the experience…although I couldn’t include that here. 

 Most people think about art in the garden as a well placed sculpture or even a beautifully designed border, but what happens when artists and designers create a garden as art from the get go?  Do we consider it a garden or is it art?

There are garden festivals  devoted to conceptual garden design that celebrate outdoor space as a possibility for creating ‘garden’ art on a large scale.  I’m a huge fan of these spaces as they challenge me as all great art does…to think.   They go beyond what we typically view as a garden, yet they incorporate plants, soil, hardscape, and found/built objects just as our own gardens do.  Sometimes they’re pretty, sometimes they’re not.

Is this a garden or art or both?  Perhaps it’s neither and just odd.  Whatever the answer, it’s thought provoking.


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