Take an old, overgrown property, plant it with a thoughtful mix of perennials, almost like adding furniture, fill each “room” with a single color—and you have Wild Knoll Foundation Garden, artist Carly Glovinski’s now five-year-old living artwork, planted on the literal foundation of author and life-long gardener May Sarton’s former home in York, Maine.
Carly fell in love with the place in 2021, when she spent time there as an artist in residence through Surf Point, a non-profit arts organization. Inspired by Sarton’s journal-style book House By the Sea and deep love of gardening, she came up with the idea to “rebuild” Sarton’s house, which had been torn down in 2020, using only plants. Guided by the site’s architectural drawings, she assigned each former room a single color: For example, orange blooms now grow in the area where the kitchen once stood, yellow in the living room, pink in the front room, and so on. She considered bloom times and the blocks of color compositions as well. “I approached the environment as an ecosystem, and the composition and concept as an art installation,” she explains.
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