By Ruth Estévez

April 2020. Soft cover with color throughout and inserts.

An intertextual narrative weaves together several years of Mexican artist Erick Meyenberg’s observations, research, paintings, and video recordings with logbooks kept by gardener and friend Chris Shea. Meyenberg’s conversations with Shea about his ephemeral landscape infer the change and loss inherent in human life, which propels the deep emotional intelligence of this bilingual monograph as it reflects on time, creation, and the inspiration of the natural world. Shea’s remarkable, nuanced, and delicate language for color is reflected in Meyenberg’s layered appreciation for the garden Shea tended until the end of his life.

Images © Erick Meyenberg

Book design: Jessica Fleischmann / still room
Co-published with haudenschildGarage