In 1979, Jennifer Bartlett traveled to an unkempt and isolated villa in France. While there, Bartlett embarked on a 15-month project producing nearly 200 drawings that captured “the awful little garden with its leaky ornamental pool and five dying cypress trees.” Bartlett’s study of a single garden on the property combines different ways of seeing in a range of artistic media to record her very personal and evolving connection to this environment. The result is a meticulous series of views, where a seemingly unappealing space transforms through repetition into a source of rich and varied expressions. Bartlett offered a new perspective on the everyday, turning her encounters with this garden into a meditation on place.