Daffodil Heart Land Art
Land Art can be defined as artistic works designed and
accomplished using the landscape as the artistic
medium. Artists may erect great linear fabric swaths
across a landscape (as has Christo); they may construct
amazing forms within the seascape (the Spiral Jetty);
they may construct great walls of rock and other
materials (like Goldsworthy’s Wall). At Visionscapes,
we emphasize the temporal - being in “tempo” with
nature, so that landscape installations play with the
changes of the seasons and with time.
In this example, Visionscapes created a vegetative form
of Land Art – taking the form of a triple daffodil heart.
The bulbs that create the shape of the heart were planted
in the fall for a whimsical spring bloom time. After
blooming, the bulbs then disappear for the next three
seasons until the earth once again warms after winter.
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Visionscapes Land Art appears in GARDENING LIFE Magazine
January/February 2003 Issue, p.10
LAND ART gives novel twist to the old idea of art in the garden, as this daffodil heart by landscape architect Virginia Burt illustrates. Planted in the grassy expanse of her backyard septic field in Burlington, Ont., it's composed of 450 King Alfred daffodils and measures some 45 feet (13.5) across. In Britain, too, gardeners such as Graham Moore are setting their mowers at two different heights and sculpting shapes such as flowers and Celtic crosses in their lawns: sward play at its best. Since these objects d'art are morphing with every change in the weather and continually growing, they're more like motion pictures than sculptures—with nature itself as the ultimate director. |
