Photos of a (Renaissance)
garden are added together by the collage technique, with elements
of Classic and Baroque architecture, thus transforming the
scene into an ideal Arcadian setting. Such a garden becomes
a part of a broad arranged space, where, as one may expect,
there are fountains, towers, flowers and lush flora, pastoral
landscapes, and fantastic architecture.
The space is linked with an imaginary place, such as the
town of Amaurot on the island of Utopia, from Thomas More's
book of the same title, where: "...citizens invest much
in their gardens, where they grow wine grapes, fruits, vegetables,
and flowers with so much taste, care, and attention that I
have never seen a better yield or a prettier scene...It is
trully difficult to find anywhere else in the town anything
that could be more useful to the citizens or do them more pleasure,
therefore it seems that the founder of the town devoted most
of his attention to these gardens…".
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