C.D.September 16, 2008 12:21 EST

In “The Renaissance of Cute”, Nick Mount describes the free gift of beauty to urbanites as a revolution. Hell, gardeners have been doing this forever!

Perhaps in downtown London or Toronto gardens are absent, but in Vancouver and Victoria they are an integral part of the streetscape. There’s even a direct equivalent to street art: guerrilla gardening; where people take over areas of emptiness and despair and bring colour & hope. Of course, like street art, there are no gallery owners or editors filtering the gardens, so the tacky amateur ones filled with red geraniums sit alongside captivating and sophisticated designs.

Perhaps the only reason gardens are not considered works of art is because they can’t be bought and sold.

AnonymousFebruary 09, 2009 17:16 EST

This article reminded of a year old posting I saw.

http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2007/10/dirty-trick-cau.html

Very cool and gone in a flash...

KMM

AnonymousJune 11, 2009 19:44 EST

related: more cute canadian street art,

grahamlandin.blogspot.com