Between any two things is a boundary that separates them and imbues meaning. City-lines demarcate the wilderness from the urban just as garden walls define what is within and what is without. These boundaries raise questions of permutation: who or what is allowed to pass between these areas? When the boundaries are permeable, they become sites of high-traffic and thus rich with character.
The Villa Medici in Fiesole overlooks the city of Florence and bears witness to various borders — trees between properties, streets cutting through the countryside, and the boundaries of the town.
This villa is built into the hillside and has several tiers of walls. This dog barks over one such wall at the various guests passing at a lower level.
Flowers line the slopping, zig-zag paths that lead up and down the garden property.
A sea of flowers grows before the windows of the Sforzesco Castle in Milan, creating vistas to constantly renewing life just outside the 15th century castle construction.
In what was once the moat of the Sforzesco Castle roam many cats, popping in and out of visitors' views.
The blue of the water meets the green of the forested mountains around Lake Como excepting these spots where pastel constructions spring up in the dozens of small lakeside towns dotted around the shore.
These luxurious shoreline towns halt suddenly as if the pastel riches cannot venture any higher up the steep hills behind them.
From a higher vantage, the boundary with the water is eclipsed, showing that these towns are also between earth and sky, not simply water and earth.