nice grl club

Auricula or mountain cowslip. Temple of Flora. 1812. Robert John Thornton.

Day 2879, 2 May 2026

On the edge of the Lake District National Park

Find the pairs of little houses that are identical.  Vie et bonté : France Croix-Rouge. January 1970.

ART & BOTANY: FALLING GARDEN

Swiss artists Gerda Steiner and Jorg Lenzlinger hung flowers, seeds, and branches in a 17th-century church in Venice as part of the 50th Venice Biennale.

They called it Falling Garden, a world in which visitors lie in repose on the mausoleum floor, while "the garden thinks for them." Contemporary Swiss artists Gerda Steiner and Jorg Lenzlinger design site-specific installations that envelop the viewer—epically and exquisitely. Falling Garden is a world in which botanical curios are suspended from the ceiling of a 17th-century church in Venice.

It's a botanic tableau in three dimensions, against a backdrop of richly decorated Italian marble. The piece immerses visitors in a magical reality of dreamy conceits—if a blossom had a mind, this is surely what it would look like. Falling Garden becomes the visitors' collective dream of botanical liturgies and ecclesiastic whimsy.