Jardins de Metis, Reford Gardens, Grand-Métis, Québec, Canada.
2010 International Garden Festival.
Double Serpent Nature Walk is an augmentation of Round Up (After Monet), LLL's 2008 Festival project, for this year's Paradise-themed 2010 Festival.
Visitors are encouraged to try to walk the entire lenth of a 4.5-inch-wide wooden balance beam that snakes all through the site at 15 inches above the ground. The original landscaping of turf grass is replaced this year by a variety of meadow plants, which is to be left untended to grow tall by the end of the season. The experience of a typical 'nature walk' is heightened by the challenge to stay on the beam and not fall off into the 'unknown' of the deep, and at times wet and marsh-like wild meadow.
above: Installation view, June 2010. (wild meadow is still to be established).
Installation View, June 2010
