SACRED TO VENUS / with The Trinidad Group / Osterley Park House, "The National Trust", London 2001  
Moving through this oddly strange land, the bosquets and avenues of trees, past Venus temples and grottoes in Elysian fields, produces nothing less than amazement. For the democratic citizen of the 21st century the pictorial messages, composed for aristocratic court pleasures, are strange and unreadable. Bacchanals, feasts, folies bergères, et in Arcadia ego… we know practically nothing about the movements and rituals that took place in old art gardens. For that reason, even the best cared for are today merely cultural wasteland!
 
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