African-American Gardens of the South
January 31 through April 19, 2009
East Gallery
Vaughn Sills’ project to photograph African-American gardens and gardeners of the South documents a disappearing way of using and relating to the land—spiritually, visually, and pragmatically—that has been traced back to West Africa. Sills captures a distinctive style of landscape architecture informed by beauty, mystery, and function, in photographs as evocative as the gardens themselves.