“When the work was done, Muybridge retired to Kingston-on-Thames. Withdrawing from all contention, he serenely took up the British national pastime of gardening. The old man imported sago palms and a ginkgo tree from California, and planted them in his backyard. I am told that they still thrive. When he died, in 1904, he was constructing a little pond, in the shape of the Great Lakes of North America. I am tempted to call it a perfect life.”

Hollis Frampton, Eadweard Muybridge: Fragments of a Tesseract

(Image: The Great Lakes | Linoluem floor work in progress, Stanley Picker Gallery, November 2010)