Garden of Cosmic Speculation

The Garden of Cosmic Speculation

The garden that Charles Jencks, an American-born landscape architect and historian, has developed at Portrack House has been inspired by questions of modern science and the laws of nature. The themes explored include the science of complexity and chaos, fractals, black holes and DNA, and concepts of space and time. These themes are represented by the extensive manipulation of the landscape and siting of individual sculptures and forms. The entire 30 acre site is itself a deliberate, considered sculpture:

The Garden of Cosmic Speculation is a landscape of waves, twists and folds, a landscape pattern designed to relate us to nature through new metaphors presented to the senses.
- Charles Jencks

See: http://gerryco23.wordpress.com/2011/05/03/the-garden-of-cosmic-speculation/

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Comment by Odd Andreas Sørgård on March 4, 2012 at 8:12pm

That garden look very special...

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