At the drawing board

Draft after draft of the Brooklyn back garden have found their way to the drawing board, initially as a quickly sketched pages of ideas of what the garden could become. Rough sketches then become more neat drawings, coloured in even, first general layouts and then more and more detailed drawings akin to plans. It’s a process that’s initially quite free, to then become more and more specific and narrowed down, ultimately stimulating all aspects of the creative process.

At the moment a lot of the details of the layout plan are being explored and worked out, while visits to the garden itself is generating new ideas and perspectives, ultimately creating changes on the drawn plan again.

The tension between the real, lived site and what lives in your imagination is always interesting, often slightly at odds with each other but ultimately always a generator of new and fresh solutions. It’s an exciting process, and as the seasons are changing, the time is coming nearer to when the plans on the page will become a real garden - imagine that.