"The Garden of the Phoenix is an unlikely island of calm in Jackson Park: koi swimming under the reflection of stone lanterns; a wooden, open-air pagoda; and a tree so old it’s reclining. The arched footbridge and meandering pebbled paths ask viewers to consider each feature of the garden, gifted by the government of Japan for the World’s Columbian Exposition. Every April or May since 1893, cherry trees flower, rivaling in riotous color the twelve-foot steel lotus petals emerging from Skygazer (2016), a sculpture by Yoko Ono that rises from the ground just outside the Garden’s fence."
