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Walled Garden

Brazierspark, Oxfordshire, England, August 2005

 

 

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The work Walled Garden in Braziers Park, Oxfordshire, England, focuses attention to the strange form of this historic wall; it is curved and flows down from the hill, in different angles. It quite remarkable that even the bricks in the wall are not horizontal. I accentuated this strange situation by adding a horizontal line, a basic element found in the Dutch landscape, using painted wood and steel brackets. Looking up at the wall from ground level, the line actually seems to go up in both directions to the left and right end of the wall. Only when viewed from the opposite hill, from a position at the same height as the wall, one can see a really horizontal line. The color I added to the wood is a very artificial bluish-green, to stand out against all the natural colors in this environment.