Innisfree Garden, Millbrook, New York, 1981Gelatin silver print
8 × 10 in.
photographer’s credit stamp on print recto and notes in pencil photographer’s hand
Innisfree Garden, in Millbrook, New York, began as painter Walter Beck’s private estate in the 1920s, inspired by Chinese garden design. After Beck’s death, landscape architect Lester Collins distilled his vision into a sequence of “cup gardens”—self-contained landscapes revealed in turn. Yang responded to this layered history with photographs that honor the site’s intended pacing, moving from enclosure to openness. His images slow the eye, echoing the garden’s unfolding choreography of space, light, and seasonal change.