Installation on the Piazza Vecchia, Bergamo
This temporary installation for the annual festival ‘I Maestri del Pasesaggio’ in the historic centre of Bergamo, Italy was created in collaboration with Luciano Giubbilei’s studio, and aimed to convey a feeling of spontaneous wildness within a world of culture and order.
For ten late summer days, I worked on site, leading a team of landscape architecture students and horticulture volunteers. Gradually the trees were placed and cared for in the hostile climate. Then around them we arranged thousands of potted nursery plants, mostly wild varieties of perennials and temperate climate grasses from both Europe and North America. The end result was emblematic of late summer hay meadows and woodland glades. Seedheads and remnants of summer flowers were deliberately included to evoke the feeling that the garden was living a longer life than it actually did.
JH ~October 2019
