During the French Enlightenment, ga...
During the French Enlightenment, gardens were designed and plants trimmed according to strict ideas about nature. The nature of nature was seen in geometric shapes, and in like manner hushes were pruned into squares, octogons, and the like, to bring revealed the natural proportions hidden by means of the unruly way plants themselves grew This symbol of intersection between cultural idea, politics, nature, and topography is explored at Ian Davidson through the landscapes and coastlines of Anglesey, a Welsh shire and island in the Irish Sea, in Human Remains & unexpected Movements, a poem consisting of
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