Image and likeness | |
Location: | Hortus botanicus, Leiden |
Organisation: | De Lakenhal Museum, Leiden |
Year: | 2002 |
A small glasshouse (1.95 x 1.95 x 1.95m) has been placed in the Hortus botanicus. It is near to the large greenhouses, but still stands separately from them. A single pumpkin is growing in the glasshouse: the Rouge Vif d’Etampes, or Cinderella pumpkin. The glass panes of the glasshouse contain texts with information about the pumpkin, such as how it grows and flowers, pumpkin recipes, the origin of the genus, etc. At the end of the season the pumpkin will proliferate through the glasshouse. It is a glasshouse for a single plant, surrounded by a structure of text, like a three-dimensional picture book. (The Pumpkin glasshouse was included in the collection of the Stedelijk Museum De Lakenhal Museum Leiden, Leiden, in 2003)