With the ability to create landscapes and gardens by migrating and arranging plants, mankind has for centuries been working on shared spaces of augmented reality. Utilising the ancient concept of aesthetic gardening, mirrors and magic lanterns of 18th century phantasmagoria-theatre and contemporary projection mapping practice “Le Mal du Pays” lays out the history of reality augmentation and focuses it one installation. The idea of a shared illusion contrasts the dawning of a new kind of potential individual isolation by hermetic virtual reality tools.