Brazilian landscape architect Roberto Burle Marx believed that the garden was one of the greatest art forms, one that might provide a utopian space amid industrialization and the end of nature. As he said in 1954, “[T]he plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant—rare, unusual, ordinary or doomed to disappearance—but it is also a color, a shape, a volume or an arabesque in itself.”
–Michelle Kuo, The Marlene Hess Curator of Painting and Sculpture