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"The gardens of history are being replaced by sites of time."
—Robert Smithson
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To think about Chiswick House and Gardens is to think about history, to think about layers of history, and the place, 
this place, as a site of time, a site of transformation and change. And then to see this site, as if it were a
stage, a stage upon which we appear, and then disappear, as others have appeared and dis-
appeared before us. Stories are told, and re-told
-- once upon a time, a time once
upon
-- of moments forgotten, and of moments ​remaining. Like water
​under the bridge, we see the trace of time
— its translucence,
its transience
-- and the movement, the movement
of ​the moment of remembrance.
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Part One

A Time Once Upon
At the Ionic Temple (1729)
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Part Two

REMEM  /  BRANCE

 At a bend in the stream, just down the trail from Chiswick Garden's Ionic Temple, the word "REMEM   /  BRANCE"
was written on the water. Divided within itself, its formation split and separated upon the water's reflecting
​surface (a world turned upside down), the floating word was read in motion, read in time,
read in its re-connection, its re-collection. "REMEM   /  BRANCE" -- seen and ​said,
as if walking into the word, into the memory of its own meaning,
​into the ​meaning of its own memory --
​pictured into place.
"You may think that the memories themselves vanish every time there's a disappearance, but that's not true.
They're just floating in a pool where the sunlight never reaches. All you have to do is plunge your 
​ hand in and you're bound to find something. Something to bring back into the light."
—from Yoko Ogawa's The Memory Police (177)
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​A World Turned Upside Down
The Installation Announcement
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The Morning of the Installation at the Orange Tree Grove and Ionic Temple
Installation Photographs by Aaron Colina
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De-Installation of half of "Remembrance," June 13, 2019 (video by Nicholas Coleman)
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Lord Burlington (1694-1753) 
Chiswick House and Gardens
Proprietor and Architect
William Kent  (1685-1748)
​Chiswick Gardens Landscape Architect
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"William Kent was painter enough to taste the charms of landscape . . . He leapt the fence, and saw that
all nature was a garden. He felt the delicious contrast of hill and valley changing imperceptibly
into each other, tasted the beauty of the gentle swell, or concave scoop, and remarked
how loose ​groves crowned an easy eminence with happy ornament.”
—Horace Walpole (1717-1797)
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Pictured into Place
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Many thanks to Nicolas Coleman, Sarah Fogleman, Henry Fullerton, and Christyn Kelly for assisting with this installation; and to Jake Lonergan at Chiswick House and Gardens.
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