Tesselescence (Garden Apartment Gallery) was an outdoor installation by Keeley Haftner on the front lawn of Chicago’s Garden Apartment Gallery. The artist used the tumbling blocks tessellation pattern to arrange the overgrown yard into three quilted tones: found wild foliage (trimmed), fresh sod, and open soil seeded with bird- and butterfly-friendly plants.

An extension of Haftner’s Tesselescence (Installations) series, the project combined the concepts of tessellation—a two-dimensional pattern with a three-dimensional effect—and obsolescence. Initially installed as a strict geometric design, the work was intended to rewild over time, gradually softening into an ecologically supportive urban garden.