CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 4/19/2013

Reed Hilderbrand: Visible|Invisible

River birch populate the edge of a sculpture court designed by Boston-based landscape architecture firm, Reed Hilderbrand, whose new monograph, Visible | Invisible is published by Metropolis Books. Essayist Robert Pogue Harrison writes, "If Hell is the impossibility of reason, as some have said, it is also the impossibility of hearing. What I have called the unworlding of the world produces a great deal of noise—of rage, misery, and uprootedness; of vendors, vatics, and propagandists; of self-assertion or self-mutilation—and this noise overwhelms us in a Babel of accents. Noise militates against thinking, which at bottom is a form of listening. Reed Hilderbrand makes it one their highest priorities to create landscapes that mute the din of our world so that a certain kind of thinking—or a certain kind of listening—can take place. Indeed, the overwhelming impression I get from their work is of thoughtful reticence. Here one finds a deliberate withholding of declaration in favor of heeding."