The project explores the disappearing visual language of vernacular yard decorations found in small towns and villages. Using old tires, painted stones, broken toys, metal scraps, and handmade sculptures, people create deeply personal spaces that exist somewhere between care and absurdity, beauty and kitsch. As these environments gradually disappear, replaced by standardized landscaping, the project becomes an archive of a fragile form of everyday creativity.
A Fading Language
09.11.26 — Natalya Gordeeva
The project explores the disappearing visual language of vernacular yard decorations found in small towns and villages. Using old tires, painted stones, broken toys, metal scraps, and handmade sculptures, people create deeply personal spaces that exist somewhere between care and absurdity, beauty and kitsch. As these environments gradually disappear, replaced by standardized landscaping, the project becomes an archive of a fragile form of everyday creativity.
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