Xilitla was a town in Mexico that was home to Edward James, a poet, patron of surrealism, and landscaper. He created a surrealist garden and estate there between 1907-1984 that featured tall sculptures and structures surrounded by nature. The document describes the location and some key elements of James' garden including spirals, repetition of forms, and how nature would consume the sculptures over time.

1. XILITLA
edward james
P1 mariana mincarone
vitória spohr

2. san diego
monterrey
mexico xilitla havana
ciudade de
mexico
localização

3. Here amid the warmth of the rain, what might have been
is resolved into the tenderness of a tall doom
who says: ‘You did your best, rest’ the bloom
- and after you
of what you loved and planted still will whisper what you mean.

4. 1907
EDWARD JAMES
poeta
mecenas
patrono do surrealismo 1984
And the ghosts of the birds I loved, will attend me each a friend;
like them shall I have flown beyond the realm of words.

5. You, through the trees, shall hear them, long after the end
calling me beyond the river. For the cries of birds
continue, as - defended by the cortege of their wings -
my soul among strange silences yet sings.

6. verticalidade

7. espiral

8. elementos da natureza

11. reprodução das flores
repetição de um elemento

12. a natureza consome as esculturas