Responses to the images of the emptied walled garden: Fran Tonkiss to Niall Hobhouse
At an early stage in the process, someone suggested that a solution to the problem posed by the walled garden might be to tear down the wall. It turns out the first part of the solution has been to tear down the garden.Â
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Looking through the photographs, I’m taken by the particular beauty of the garden over the various phases of its undoing: as lazy, then wild and now bare. And the image of the cleared garden is especially good for seeing the shape and the slope of the thing.Â
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You may not have torn down the wall, but you have turned the space inside out. The garden, now, is outside the wall.