Clocks and calendars can be used to measure time, but every measuring method has its shortcomings; the actual start of winter rarely coincides with the official meteorological winter.
Natural symptoms are still important for our sense of time and influences us constantly. Changes in colour, texture, shape, and volume give us information about the passage of time in everything around us. A garden essentially is ‘constant change’, which you could read as a clock.
In search of alternative measuring tools Sanne Vaassen extracted the colours of the flora of a garden. She soaks the plants, grasses, weeds, and flowers in pure alcohol, which extracts the colours from the plants and temporarily preserves them. Every glass tube shows one plant species and together they form a colour scheme of the garden that will slowly fade away.
At the moment Sanne extracted the colours of the flora of four gardens. - Joep Vossebeld
