landscape architecture 2009
'an artful experiment' by Bernard St-Denis and Peter Jacobs, FALSA
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St-Denis, Bernard and Jacobs, Peter. "An Artful Experiment." Landscape Architecture, Nov 2009: 92-101
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"Architects and Artists Mateo Pinto and Carolina Cisneros up with landscape architect Victoria Marshall to create Seedling, an abstract fable about the wonder of plant growth initiated as a seed. On a carpet of pine needles, dozens of fluorescent green traffic cones were placed on a quasi-regular grid to cover the entire ground of one of the gardens rooms set along a cliff overlooking the St. Lawrence River. From each of the cones, a tuft of curved cables and strings shop up, all shiny, slender, and flexible. They formed and amazingly intricate and delicate volume overhead, which was highlighted by the ever-changing light and background of trees. The lightness and radiance of the volume added significantly to the already serene character of the room. The cones and few strips of white and yellow plastic fibers provided a touch of liveliness. One was encouraged to absorb the ambiance while reflecting on the garden's metaphoric allusion to plant life, which relied on a witty analogy between the traffic cones and pine cones found in the forest nearby."
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