A frame dangling with colourful ribbons and a wooden tree cocoon are some of the outdoorsy installations on display at the International Garden Festival in Quebec, Canada.
The theme of this year's festival is Playsages ? a play on the words play and paysages, which is French for landscape. The organisers wanted "to re-think play", while also considering the "growing distance and alienation from the natural world".
"We spend less time outdoors... and when outdoors, we often observe the landscape with an electronic tool in our hands or mask the sounds of the natural world with ear buds," they said.
Installations at this year's International Garden Festival include the colourful Vertical Line Garden by Julia Jamrozik and Coryn Kempster The most noticeable design of the series is the vibrant Vertical Line Garden by Canadian designers Julia Jamrozik and Coryn Kempster. Loungers can relax on deck chairs underneath a canopy of multicoloured strands swaying in the breeze.
Visitors can lounge underneath its colourful ribbons, which sway in the breeze
Another highlight is a cocoon-shaped, wooden hut built around a tree named La Chrysalide, constructed by landscape architects Gabriel Lacombe and Virginie Roy-Mazoyer. The title of the work is a reference to the hard outer shell of a caterpillar that is discarded after it transforms into a butterfly or moth, which the structure mimics.
Gabriel Lacombe and Virginie Roy-Mazoyer have constructed a ...