A Hanging Garden With Luminous Mechanical Flowers That Bloom Inside a Historic French Church
Lonneke Gordijn of Studio DRIFT discussed the inspiration behind their project Meadow, an inverted, suspended garden of luminous mechanical flowers that slowly open and close in a soothing rhythm. This immersive kinetic installation blooms within the historic walls of the Sainte-Croix-des-Pelletiers church in Rouen, France, through September 27, 2026.
With *Meadow*, an inverted landscape comes to life above visitors: luminous mechanical flowers open and close in a delicate choreography, offering a moment of contemplation in the heart of a suspended garden.
Like their Shylight project, Meadow was inspired by natural phenomena and the rhythms and movements of the living world.
Lonneke Gordijn looks back at the inspirations that guided the creation of Meadow, a hanging garden, and explains how Studio DRIFT draws on the rhythms, behaviors, and movements of the natural world to design works that seem to have a life of their own.
