Liquid Marble Series, Petite Loire

Château de Chaumont-sur-Loire, France

"I wanted to address the garden with water as my muse. The water whose presence we sense even before we first catch sight of it down there below the Château, flowing uninterrupted to the sea. Some say the Loire is France's last wild river; it shapes and nourishes the landscapes it passes through without ever pausing along the way.
Petite Loire is a freeze-frame, the river's perpetual movement caught in a frozen, fossilized moment. A few dozen meters above the river's natural level, Petite Loire cuts cleanly through the garden's surface, delving into the soil to reveal a fluvial relief, both vertiginous and practicable, in green marble ..."
M.L