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The Doc Five Seasons: The Gardens of Piet Oudolf Is Beautiful Because Oudolf's Gardens Are Beautiful

by Charles Mudede
Here is a correspondence that caught me by surprise: The films of Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky, and the gardens of Dutch landscape designer Piet Oudolf. What brings the two together is a sense of beauty that is highly conceptual and yet achieves the illusion of being aleatory or accidental. The impulse here is to recreate those moments when beauty just happens, when it's brought together by forces that have no designer or goal. It is these experiences that make us mystical

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