LINE GARDEN

International Garden Festival, Grand Metis, Quebec, 2015

commercial barrier tape, wooden stakes

custom-fabricated bent metal and canvas lounge chairs

Drawing on the formal language of historical garden design, and the contemporary means of mass-produced safety and construction materials, this project is a strong graphic intervention that aims to produce an abstract field. Defining a geometric zone out of tightly spaced parallel lines of stretched commercial barrier tape, the installation introduces ordered man-made elements into the cultivated natural environment of the Gardens. Through this juxtaposition a dialogue between the two spheres is created, based on the shared theme of protection and necessary safe-guarding, while questioning the definition of what is truly natural.