ABSTRACT BY THOMAS KISSLING

The garden offers an opportunity to capture 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 the supposedly everyday, such as the imagined workers’ gardens around Paris. Reading these built models requires the viewer’s attention as well as knowledge of the location and specific context. In this way, the different levels of meaning can be identified and the world deciphered as a construct.