These ruins once belonged to an ambitious project — one of many that emerged in the 1990s, when newly wealthy people, with businesses both legal and not so legal, started building grand mansions. Many of those projects were never completed, like this concrete structure that still makes us wonder what it was meant to become.

Nearly 30 years later, the new owner chose not to demolish the remains, but to turn them into a garden — a unique and brilliant idea, reminiscent of an old Roman sanctuary with its own special charm. I was invited to decorate the walls so they wouldn’t look so cold. That’s how the idea of “remains” came — fragments of ancient symbols like a lion, a vase, a horse, and cherubs.

Special thanks to Aras for the invitation — a truly remarkable place.