The British Artist Created The Secret Garden of Jeans Scraps in New York

The American factory of the production the denim fabric Cone Mills White Oak Plant, whose history is more than a century, decided to mark its closure with an unusual way. The last batch of material produced in 2017, the plant gave the British artist Ian Berry, who used it to create a filigree installation of The Secret Garden in the New York Children’s Museum of Art.

Using only glue and scissors, Berry turned one of the museum’s rooms into a magical garden, lined with creepers, filled with flowers, cacti and plants in tubs and populated with cute denim rabbits. Monochrome installation occupies the floor, walls, ceiling and illuminated niches of a narrow room. It was part of an exhibition by the artist Ellen Harvey entitled “Ornaments and other magnets on the refrigerator”, which is devoted to a story about the history and meaning of the ornament.