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September 17, 2024 8:18 AM Subscribe
Tour Artist Mimi Lauter's Magical Los Angeles Garden “A lot of my work relates to my perception of color in the garden. Cultivating the land is a lot like making a painting. You begin by preparing the soil the way you prepare the surface of the picture. Once the ground is set you start to gather and orchestrate the color,” Lauter offers. There are, however, limits to the conceptual equation. “Paintings aren’t there to make you feel good, even though they can do that. Gardens are there to be a place of peace and sanctuary,” the artist muses. By Mayer Rus Photography by Jason Schmidt for Architectural Digest
Lauter's Instagram
At Blum Gallery
Lauter's Instagram
At Blum Gallery
Very cool! Gotta say, this is a weird way to end the article: On the hot-button issue of natives versus non-natives, Lauter comes down on the side of romance and freedom of expression. “I hate native gardens and conceptual gardens. There are plenty of non-natives that are great for the birds and the bugs,” she contends. “I like roses, so what am I going to do?”
Anyone who describes herself as hating native gardens has strange priorities around human relationships with plants.
posted by wicked_sassy at 8:45 AM on September 17 [6 favorites]
Anyone who describes herself as hating native gardens has strange priorities around human relationships with plants.
posted by wicked_sassy at 8:45 AM on September 17 [6 favorites]
I know her and the author irl. Garden is great, but “ scrappy” isn’t really accurate for Echo Park.
posted by Ideefixe at 9:24 AM on September 17 [4 favorites]
posted by Ideefixe at 9:24 AM on September 17 [4 favorites]
@Jake DeNira the word tour in the title is a verb, not an adjective. Your comment might have been in jest, I'm not sure, but I got stuck for quite a while on the exact same point and couldn't even read the article until I figured out what was intended.
posted by OrangeDisk at 9:37 AM on September 17 [1 favorite]
posted by OrangeDisk at 9:37 AM on September 17 [1 favorite]
Very lovely art. Pastels are difficult to work with. And give me a field of wildflowers, unkempt and unruly any day over a manicured garden.
posted by Czjewel at 9:49 AM on September 17
posted by Czjewel at 9:49 AM on September 17
Ha, I had the same issue with Tour.
I love her garden, but I disagree with her quote. Some paintings are there to make you feel good and some gardens are there to make you feel good. Some paintings are not there to make you feel good and some gardens are there to feed you or heal sicknesses in humans or in nature. I suppose those might also be ways of making someone feel good, but I don't believe that's the sense in which she meant it.
None of that changes that her garden is beautiful and calming, but gardens, like paintings, can absolutely have more purpose than that.
posted by jacquilynne at 10:28 AM on September 17 [1 favorite]
I love her garden, but I disagree with her quote. Some paintings are there to make you feel good and some gardens are there to make you feel good. Some paintings are not there to make you feel good and some gardens are there to feed you or heal sicknesses in humans or in nature. I suppose those might also be ways of making someone feel good, but I don't believe that's the sense in which she meant it.
None of that changes that her garden is beautiful and calming, but gardens, like paintings, can absolutely have more purpose than that.
posted by jacquilynne at 10:28 AM on September 17 [1 favorite]
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