Isn’t there something sublimely beautiful about this image? I’ve always been drawn to black anyways, so perhaps this was something that I would naturally gravitate towards.
Lauren Fensterstock wanted to concentrate on form instead of relying on color, hence the absence of color in this exhibit, Incident of Garden Displacement, which was showing at Ogunquit Museum of American Art earlier in 2011. She wanted to show that the gardens that man creates is an image of what he perceives nature should be, instead of what it actually is.
Nature has natural patterns and rhythms that are inherently built into growth patterns that man can only partially replicate because the entire picture can never be known or understood without belonging to nature itself. Read more about her thoughts at My Modern Met. A black garden that is complex, elegant, and so beautiful in its absence of everything but what’s necessary really is a work of art in itself.
