Today, Amsterdam artist Diana Scherer is taking the art of topiary to subterranean levels.
The work, part of the London 2012 Festival, is due to open to the public next Friday, the 1st June, and will involve taking the public "beneath the Serpentine's lawn to explore the hidden history of its previous Pavilions," taking in the illustrious subterranean heritage.
This starting point allows Macfarlane to link his holloway with a long history of fugitives who have taken the strange semi-subterranean tunnels of the holloway, "creating correspondences that survived as a territorial imperative to concealment, escape and encounter".
(I've taken to calling the subterranean laundry room in my building the beauty level, and it's made doing laundry much more enjoyable).
Take the L train to Third Avenue and pop down into Decibel, a graffiti-covered subterranean bunker in operation since 1993.
But with artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer's latest installation, Voice Tunnel, New York's Park Avenue tunnel will be open for the public to take a subterranean stroll and experience an interactive artwork.
Steps lead to the subterranean Grotto of the Nativity.
With improved technology, fewer and fewer people need to brave the subterranean world, as machines take over.
When they hatch into cute little rambunctious baby dinosaurs, the whole crew — including the opossums Crash (Seann William Scott and Eddie Josh Peckck), ancillary, annoying comic sidekicks, just in case Sid's energy should falter — takes a subterranean voyage into a land of biological diversity and creative desolation.
A few stalwart ants, I notice, are scuttering around the lime-dusty foundation, no doubt taking in the air before the long subterranean winter's commencement.
