
Ephemeral Field Journal: Climate and Love in Claude Monet’s Garden
- Publisher
- Kehrer Verlag
- Year
- 2025
- ISBN
- 978-3-96900-201-8
- Specifications
- Swiss brochur with 3D embossing and 2 altar folds
16 x 32 cm
116 pages
52 color illustrations
Text in English and French
Text by Sarah Schorr, Charles M. Stang, quote from a song by Adrianne Lenker
Design by Aneta Kowalczyk
When Claude Monet settled in Giverny in 1883, he designed a flower garden full of impressive color compositions for observing light and time. The American artist Sarah Schorr understands Monet’s garden as a creative, living laboratory. From the tiny teardrops of rain to the steady stream feeding the water lily pond, the images in this book were inspired by the movement of water in Monet’s garden. By collecting fallen, injured flowers in Monet’s historic green spaces, Schorr transforms them into striking works of art by bringing them to life with paint, light, paper, water, and photography. These experimental still lifes were created using living plants and local water as ingredients. The result is an evocative artist’s journal in which Schorr evokes the fragility of nature and illuminates the complex interplay of climate change, beauty, and loss. Commemorating the 100 anniversary of Claude Monet’s death, The Ephemeral Field Journal: Climate & Love in Claude Monet's Garden Project will be exhibited internationally in France, Portugal, Poland and the USA in 2025/2026.
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