Summer

Narcissus by Erwin Eisch. Narcissus, who fell in love with his own reflection and drowned in a pool

Cigarette box designed by Gabriel Argy-Rousseau

'Kohlrabi' designed by René Roubíček

Rascal with golden tears by Carolein Smit

Aimee Lax explorations of the Anthropocene

Aimee Lax explorations of the Anthropocene

Woolbeding Garden. Heatherwick Studios Glasshouse
The house is Tudor, although the only thing that remains of it is the interior (not sure how much of that still exists?) and the chimneys. The facade was replaced in around 1800 and is Georgian. The gardens didn't exist before the 1970's, the formal gardens, mock ruined chapel and folly all date from the 70's. Simon Sainsbury and his partner Stewart Grimshaw are behind the vision for the garden in collaboration with various garden designers over the years. Stewart Grimshaw discussed creating a lasting legacy for the garden with Thomas Heatherwick based on planting that would have been found on the silk route, an under-represented areas of horticulture in the UK and that is how the idea for the kinetic glasshouse came into being, at the end of the meandering silk route garden. The glass blades/petals open and close to maintain the correct climate for the sub-tropical planting inside. The visit was a fantastically unreal experience, the artifice of the garden, the sci-fi industrial glasshouse.

Woolbeding Garden. Heatherwick Studios Glasshouse

Woolbeding Garden. William Pye goblet water Sculpture

Tate Britain. Cornelia Parker 'Cold Dark Matter'

Tate Britain. Cornelia Parker 'War Room'

Serpentine Pavilion 2022 Black Chapel by Theaster Gates

Views of the Barbican Estate from the pedestrian high-walk