SPONGE PRINTS
2022. Black Ink on Paper, 21.59 x 27.94 cm, Edition 1/3, Set of 13.
In an attempt to produce an architectural effect of fuzzy edges, Sponge Prints referenced European gardening techniques of the 18th century to construct a new material effect. Rather than hedges, sponges.
Antoine Joseph Dézallier d'Argenville, The Theory And Practice Of Gardening, 1709
As reference, d’Argenville’s Palisade a I'ttalionne, provided the ambition to create a impermeable exterior skin with the texture of foliage.
Yew Hedge at Bathurst Estate in the Cotswold England, Planted 1720, Photograph 1962.
At 14 meters high 139 meters wide and 7 meters deep, this Yew Hedge at the Bathurst Estate takes on the proportions of a building. This is a photograph of the groundskeepers maintaining the hedge.