We live in landscape narratives — places where stories are embedded in the land itself, entangled in the vegetation or built into the architecture. A winding road, a tower, a house under construction or falling apart — in all these we find stories at work.

Gardens are perhaps the ultimate landscape narrative where stories may be told through the arrangements of plants, pathways, statues, fountains, or architecture upon the natural features of a site. The great Italian architects of the sixteenth century purposefully inscribed narratives in their gardens to create story gardens, and this tradition has continued to inspire artists in our own era.