THE MOUNTAINS OF THE SIERRA GORDA

Posted on 2011-07-04

The mountains of the Sierra Gorda, in Xilitla are where the poet and artist Sir Edward James sculpted his surrealist exotic garden.
Such was the power of Mexico’s rainforests that James succumbed to something of a prolific Romantic building spell; prompting him to construct towering surrealist sculptures among approximately 80 acres of cold natural waterfalls and moulded pools. Yep, Tijuana this isn’t. All of James’ follies, palaces, temples and pagodas, (there’s over 30 of them), are spread across boundless beds full of tropical plants, including the succinctly named ‘House on Three Floors Which Will in Fact Have Five or Four or Six’.The vast panoramic views of the Sierra Madre Oriental Mountains surpasses any blank gallery space we’ve yet come across.

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