Vertical Line Garden

Working with patterns, order, colour and density, this garden in Métis, Québec by Jamrozik and Kempster is a play on formal traditional gardens with contemporary ready-made means.

Vertical Line Garden by Julia Jamrozik and Coryn Kempster was installed as part of the International Garden Festival in Grand-Métis, Québec, Canada in June 2017. Working with patterns, order, colour and density, this garden is a play on formal traditional gardens with contemporary ready-made means and hyper un-natural materials. The main material forming the installation, barricade tape (barrier tape), is typically used to delineate a perimeter and keep people out of a particular area or zone. Here however it is used precisely to bring visitors into the space and entice them to inhabit it.

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Img.1 Julia Jamrozik and Coryn Kempster, Vertical Line Garden, Grand-Métis, Québec, 2017

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Img.11 Julia Jamrozik and Coryn Kempster, Vertical Line Garden, Grand-Métis, Québec, 2017

The installation creates a fluid space which responds to its environmental conditions and changes dramatically with the intensity of light and wind. Depending on the weather, the space is kinetic and very open or it is calm and forms a permeable but closed volume. The transformation is visual but also auditory, as the sound generated by the movement of the barrier tape ranges from a quiet stir to a vigorous rustle. The garden is meant to be experienced, explored, and occupied, and for this purpose custom bent steel and fabric lounge chairs are provided.