Materials used: Ink-jet print on watercolour paper, 
magazine cut-outs, wrapping paper, watercolour pen, 
electrical tape, matt varnish.

Mondrian's Modern Garden Design
Collage on Canvas
400mm x 300mm 
$390
Exhibited in the Boston Meditech and the New England Biolab corporate galleries, May to Aug 2004, alongside works form the permanent collection of the Museo de Collage, Mexico.

Here two of Mondrian’s images are given a humorous garden theme. The outer grid is based on his 1936 work “Composition with Red and Blue” and within two of the grids are pieces from his 1911/1912 “Landscape with Trees”. In this earlier work, he was inserting shapes within black lines. 

So in the same manner, within the grids formed in this collage, I have inserted shapes: 
-in the top right is a garden design plan 
-in the top left and bottom right are fragments of “Landscape with trees”- scanned and printed on watercolour paper 
-in the bottom left is a picture of a window frame, echoing the grid structure. 

The “Red” becomes flowers reminiscent of his “Amaryllis” illustration. The Blue stays blue but with wooden plant boxes on it, again echoing the grids.

 Supervising this garden structure is a perplexed gardener, who, on closer inspection, is revealed to be none other than Mondrian himself, superimposed on a borrowed body of a gardener.