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What is the hidden charms of the marginalized landscapes and gardens? Why do we need to admire them? In truth, not many people recognize my love for the poor, miserable, pitiful gardens. Indeed, they are an expression of disorder and incivility. The neglected gardens, that have got their equilibrium, are very fascinating. In the opposite case they give us the right feeling
of a sad dog left on the highway. Kafka recommended to read books that break your heart and give you backstabbing. The cottage garden, romantic with mixed border, is the summary of garden’s aesthetic ataraxia. The wreck garden hit the heart, not consoles him, slaps it. The garden, to be truly understood as art, needs something more than the beauty: it needs
the ugliness. But if we think about the urban art productions, or of the famous Gregory Crewdson, photographer of the moment, about his hyper-realistic shots that portray city suburbs, we realize that humiliated landscapes benefit in this period a great interest. I am convinced that the value of a not edenic landscape is the social aspect of life, that takes much more importance: the man gives thickness
to the landscape, not the contrary. This is relatively new concept, arrived with the postmodern aesthetic speculation. Authors such as McCarty, director as Blomkamp, made some of the most intense episodes. I think that the Postmodern is more charatterized in hell than in heaven.