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Reside — Fall 2025

a hanging branch will draw your eye up to the canopy, while the larger leaves
“ of architectural plants “make a splendid background for a tender female figure.”
At the Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park in Grand Rapids,
Michigan, the bursting forms of Roxy Paine’s stainless steel “Neuron,” 2010,
initially echo the trees that surround it, before the work’s more industrial
constituent parts reveal themselves. Such juxtapositions played out on a grander
ROXY PAINE’S
scale at this year’s opening of Thailand’s Khao Yai Art Forest, where the spindly
legs and bulbous body of a Louise Bourgeois “Maman” spider loomed alongside
‘NEURON’
an altogether more nebulous work by Japanese artist Fujiko Nakaya: a cloud
of delicate, man-made fog that descends over the site three times a day.
ECHOES THE Alexandre Grivko, chief landscape architect of the garden design company
On a clifftop overlooking the beautiful Alabaster Coast in Normandy,
TREES THAT Il Nature, has created Les Jardins d’Etretat. Where Manet and Monet once
painted, evergreens trimmed with laser-like precision now frame the work of
SURROUND IT contemporary artists. In Samuel Salcedo’s “Gouttes de Pluie” (Drops of Rain),
” things sculpture can do outdoors, and no formula, only what the late Hannah
sculpted heads with expressions of extreme emotion—anguish, fear, joy—sit
amid the precise green topiary, a masterful contrast of control and passion.
It is hard to imagine them in a bed of wallflowers. But there are many

Peschar said of the garden she founded four decades ago: “[Art] rubs off on you,
and then you find you can’t live without it.” 0
Elfreda Pownall writes about gardens and interiors for The Telegraph,
The Times of London and The Spectator

Photos: © Yann Monel; courtesy Ellsworth Kelly Studio. Jeffrey Jenkins; Courtesy Ronald van der Meijs. Victoria Leedham;

© Kirstin Prisk © Jason Ingram; gift of Fred and Lena Meijer. Neuron, 2010 © Roxy Paine.

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