New Garden
The designers of The New Garden have used urban waste and sewage pipes not only to create an image of an urbanised landscape but also to create the conditions for an ecologically sustainable, wild and unconventional planting scheme.
Photographer Johannes Schwartz, who is documenting the development of the garden, made this series of photographs of the butterbur that grows along the garden path. 'I wanted to photograph them because of the holes in the leaves, which makes them unique, although, of course, they are not. This mini-typology shows the leaves eaten by parasites alongside the perfect form of the leaf, suggesting a new type of "plant ruin".'