Daisy Border :

Ken Smith

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Ken Smith graduated from the Harvard Graduate School of Design in 1986 and started his career working with Peter Walker and Martha Schwartz in their New York and San Francisco offices. In 1992, he started his own firm in New York City.
In his projects and installations, Smith transgresses the borders of natural and artificial in the belief that substitution and hybridization are means to better express
the emotive power of landscape.

Composed of classic daisy pinwheels—a common garden decoration on American lawns—the border is at once artificial and natural. Made of plastic, it nevertheless registers sun, rain, and wind. Some days, the border seems to be made up of “micro-climates”; only a few patches of windmills turn in the gentle breeze. But in the spring, the wind whips all the windmills into a blur of color—just like a border of natural flowers.

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