Modern Water Gardens Combine The Organic With The Abstract

Modern Water Gardens Combine The Organic With The Abstract
Modern water gardens combine the organic with the mathematical and the abstract. The purpose of anything modern is to place the mind of man over the forces of nature. Since we typically associate nature with greenery, the use of plants around a modern water garden has to be minimal and highly selective. Hard straight lines, sharp right angles, abrupt intersections, stark rising forms, and linear movements that occasionally fan at into a radius all work together to establish stark, Spartan view of the world. Water then introduces to this structure a sense of life that has been reduced to its most raw and elemental base. Carefully placed outcroppings of greenery in the form of dark green shrubs, small trees surrounding by gravel, and darker grasses such as Mondo all blend together to create a feeling of emerging potential that stops itself before becoming too lush and organically comforting.