Innisfree Garden, Millbrook, New York, 1982Gelatin silver print
8 × 10 in.
signed with photographer’s credit stamp on print recto and notes in pencil photographer’s hand
Innisfree’s design was deeply influenced by the Chinese “cup garden” tradition, in which a single view is curated to encapsulate the spirit of a larger landscape. Yang worked with this concept in mind, creating photographs that serve as their own cup gardens—self-contained yet suggestive of an unseen whole. He found particular resonance in the way the garden revealed itself slowly, requiring movement and attention, much as a photograph invites sustained looking to unfold its layered meaning.