ABSTRACT BY THOMAS KISSLING

The garden offers a way of capturing the world, or parts of it, on a small scale. The forms of representation are diverse. Examples can be found not only in well-known gardens such as Stowe House north of Oxford, but also in what might be considered the everyday, such as the imagined workers’ gardens around Paris. Interpreting these built models requires the viewer’s attention, as well as knowledge of the location and the specific context. In this way, the different levels of meaning can be identified and the world deciphered as a construct.