Pastiche Gardens

Zen Garden

Van Nuys, CA | 2011

In the backyard of a 100-year-old house, the Zen Garden began as a quiet retreat from the outside world. Over its yearlong construction, it became the focal point for the house’s energy: circuit boards, credit cards, skeleton keys, marbles, brass pipes, driftwood, and even celluloid film found a home among the mossy tiles and flower boxes filled with geraniums. All of it is united by a fourteen-foot fountain of copper tubing and wire.