Wednesday, 4 December 2019

gardening stretch goals : scaffolding waterfall

Most back garden waterfalls hide their artificialiaty in a plethora of faux-rock rill bits. This suggests another approach:

The Scaffolding Waterfall

This is from the recent Olafur Eliasson exhibition at the Tate Modern, which also contained other suggestions; soft reindeer moss walls, water misters in shafts of sunlight to make rainbows in dark back gardens, geodesic domes, again, and transparent, water-covered barriers simulating rain.

lichen on the wall dancing in rainbows

magic maquettes through the waterfall window

Water wastage is much discussed. But if the water in question is rendering an area green and fertile, then it becomes a patch of green in the desert, in the tiny canyons of our back gardens.

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