2022 Fall VIS 2141
Nominated Work- Harvard GSD 2022 Fall
Instructor: Montserrat Bonvehi Rosich, Kira Clingen
Collaboration with: Chad Dennis
“The plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant - rare, unusual, ordinary or doomed to disappearance - but it is also a color, a shape, a volume or an arabesque in itself.”
- Roberto Brule Marx
The project investigates the relationships between a figural garden for a government figure and its manifestation as a result of global and local commerce systems. The result is a series of drawings that illustrate hidden languages, patterns, and properties found at the Palácio do Jaburu, designed in 1973 by Roberto Brule Marx and Oscar Niemeyer. These illustrations and the qualities they reveal were guided by a method of repeatedly re-drawing, re-examining, and re-imagining the garden through various representational exercises.
This re-iterative process created an intimacy with the garden which culminated in an expression of the discovered systems of labor and exchange which helped shape this highly curated, globally sourced, national garden. The final outcome of this study is a visual analysis of the garden, its characteristics, the origin of certain materials, and its potential to engage explicitly with territories endemic to Brazil.
