Reflecting (on) an Infinite Interior
Entry to the Jardins de Métis International Garden Festival competition, 2023–25
Like the house described by Mark Danielewski in House of Leaves, this garden has unexpected spatial characteristics—it is larger on the inside than it is on the outside: it is small outside but seemingly infinite inside, a physically inaccessible landscape with enhanced properties. Curious visitors, attracted by the excluding nature of the introverted fence, while looking in, will discover themselves projected in an infinite green space.
An enclosed elliptical third landscape where plants of native herbal species, in complete intimacy and amplified and multiplied in their attitudes by mirroring panels, will showcase natural processes of synergistic evolution. The outer surface will become itself a map of the curiosity of people seeking a spot to peek at the wilderness of plants growing undisrupted.
Mirrors expand interior space around two rocks isolated on the foci of the ellipse, revealing its inherent geometrical properties.