{"id":1295,"date":"2022-04-01T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-01T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghadaamer.com\/?p=1295"},"modified":"2022-08-21T15:25:58","modified_gmt":"2022-08-21T15:25:58","slug":"once-upon-a-happily-ever-after","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ghadaamer.com\/gardens\/once-upon-a-happily-ever-after\/","title":{"rendered":"Once Upon a Happily Ever After"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Ghada Amer\u2019s garden installation titled Happily Ever After <\/em>is a circle of rose bushes and jasmine flowers spelling out the notorious final three words of fairy tales\u2019 ending: \u201cAnd they lived happily ever after.\u201d At the heart of the five-foot stainless steel structure lies a round bench on which visitors are invited to rest and from which they only have a view of a few letters or a word at a time. Interestingly, while this garden was recreated in multiple locations, first at the Queens Museum of Art in New York and at Sudeley Castle in Withycombe (Gloucestershire, England) in 2005, there is today and since 2009 only one permanently displayed Happily Ever After<\/em> garden in Tuscany, Italy, at the vineyard of Tenuta dell\u2019Ornellaia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n