{"id":79779,"date":"2025-09-23T00:14:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T00:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/79779\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T00:14:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T00:14:14","slug":"once-captive-plants-burst-free-in-romain-veillons-secret-gardens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/79779\/","title":{"rendered":"once-captive plants burst free in romain veillon&#8217;s secret gardens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>romain veillon points his lens toward abandoned greenhouses<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>French photographer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.designboom.com\/tag\/romain-veillon\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Romain Veillon<\/strong><\/a> unveils his series Secret Gardens, a body of work that turns its lens on abandoned <a href=\"https:\/\/www.designboom.com\/tag\/greenhouses-in-architecture\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>greenhouses<\/strong><\/a> across the world. Once designed to shelter delicate plants from harsh climates and protect them from external threats, these structures now tell a different story. Veillon\u2019s images reveal glasshouses overtaken by the very vegetation they were built to contain, their iron frameworks wrapped in vines and their stained <a href=\"https:\/\/www.designboom.com\/tag\/glass-art-and-design\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>glass<\/strong><\/a> surfaces veiled by layers of leaves.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The greenhouses, often associated with luxury estates or public winter gardens, were built as carefully controlled environments, places where humans could cultivate life under glass. Today, stripped of caretakers, the once-captive plants have burst free, transforming sites of confinement into sprawling canvases of greenery. In Veillon\u2019s lens, the combination of architecture and vegetation recalls impressionist paintings. The absence of people in these scenes does not erase their presence, reminding us of the impermanence of human intervention.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1155321 size-full lazyload\" bad-src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" alt=\"once-captive plants burst free to transform abandoned greenhouses in romain veillon's series\" width=\"818\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/captive-plants-abandoned-greenhouses-romain-veillon-series-designboom-03.jpg\"  data- loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>all images by Romain Veillon<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>secret gardens series exposes Humanity\u2019s Fragile Legacy<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What would happen if people suddenly disappeared? Romain Veillon\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/romain_veillon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><strong>photographs<\/strong><\/a> imagine this possible future while keeping us grounded in the present. They show that even abandoned, these places reflect centuries of industry, yet at the same time they reveal how quickly nature can return.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The series suggests that human activity has often been more damaging than disaster itself. The images caution us against ignoring this truth while also showing nature\u2019s resilience. They encourage us to think about how quickly the balance could shift and how uncertain humanity\u2019s place on Earth really is.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1155319 size-full lazyload\" bad-src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" alt=\"once-captive plants burst free to transform abandoned greenhouses in romain veillon's series\" width=\"818\" height=\"546\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/captive-plants-abandoned-greenhouses-romain-veillon-series-designboom-01.jpg\"  data- loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>Romain Veillon unveils his series Secret Gardens<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1155322 size-full lazyload\" bad-src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" alt=\"once-captive plants burst free to transform abandoned greenhouses in romain veillon's series\" width=\"818\" height=\"546\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/captive-plants-abandoned-greenhouses-romain-veillon-series-designboom-04.jpg\"  data- loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>capturing abandoned greenhouses across the world<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1155323 size-full lazyload\" bad-src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" alt=\"once-captive plants burst free to transform abandoned greenhouses in romain veillon's series\" width=\"818\" height=\"546\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/captive-plants-abandoned-greenhouses-romain-veillon-series-designboom-05.jpg\"  data- loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>these structures were once designed to shelter delicate plants from harsh climates<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1155324 size-full lazyload\" bad-src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" alt=\"once-captive plants burst free to transform abandoned greenhouses in romain veillon's series\" width=\"818\" height=\"546\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/captive-plants-abandoned-greenhouses-romain-veillon-series-designboom-06.jpg\"  data- loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>overtaken by the very vegetation they were built to contain<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"romain veillon points his lens toward abandoned greenhouses \u00a0 French photographer Romain Veillon unveils his series Secret Gardens,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79780,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[267],"tags":[9478,365,362,363,364,366,18,117,53595,19,17,53596],"class_list":{"0":"post-79779","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-architectural-photography","9":"tag-arts","10":"tag-arts-and-design","11":"tag-artsanddesign","12":"tag-artsdesign","13":"tag-design","14":"tag-eire","15":"tag-entertainment","16":"tag-greenhouses-in-architecture","17":"tag-ie","18":"tag-ireland","19":"tag-romain-veillon"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}