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Scott McFarland’s recent photographs depict private gardens located in an exclusive Vancouver neighbourhood. The photographs, which include portrait studies of garden owners and workers, unpopulated landscapes, and images of security systems, make the private gardens built and maintained for their owners’ pleasure The gardens depicted in Scott McFarland’s recent photographs lie in a narrow wedge of land on Vancouver’s West Side, bracketed on one side by the University of British Columbia’s classrooms and satellite colleges, and, on the other, by the urban forest of the University Endowment Lands,  . . . a late-summer bounty of natural and unnatural growth, the cultivated and the uncontrollable. For while this garden has its real-world aspect and can be found on a map, it serves for Campeau as the foliage in a narrative tour of an interior landscape, described in muted speech and in surroundings of symbolic figuration .
This article was originally published only in French. No translation is available. – Read the Summary Au moment où nous sommes entraînés dans une course de plus en plus accélérée des technologies de virtualisation, certains peuvent être tentés de croire que des voies d’expression comme la photographie ou le jardin sont dépassées,  This article was originally published only in French. No translation is available. – Read the Summary Voir aussi le portfolio de l'artisteD’une sensibilité exacerbée, à fleur de peau, Eugénie Schinkle nous entraîne dans le tourbillon d’une énergie fébrile. Aussi, nous amène-t-elle à concevoir l’acte photographique comme une forme de rituel, comme un acte répondant symboliquement à un plaisir sensuel.
Voir aussi le portfolio de l'artiste
By Suzie Larivé The garden is an image of the world San for the mountain. Sui for water. The sand becomes water. The stone becomes a mountain.
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