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I'm talking about LARGE art in a LARGE garden. Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park in Grand Rapids, MI to be exact. Wherever I travel I try to go to local public gardens. It gives me a good feel for the area's topography and climate and I always learn something. And of course, some public gardens can be really beautiful and inspiring. Last summer while in Grand Rapids I went to this garden, which has a lovely prairie area with tons of flowers. But as I continued to explore I came across their sculpture park, a very loose and natural area with some really BIG sculptures. Don't you just love this large and loud trowel?
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They did a great job of siting the large sculptures. Below is a really interesting one that must be seen from a variety of angles. As you walk around the hill that the sculpture is on top of, the sculpture changes. Can you see it?
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Here are the sculpture titles and artists, top to bottom.
"Plantoir" by Claes Oldenberg and Coosje Van Bruggen
"Introspective" by Sophie Ryder
"Cabin Creek" by Deborah Butterfield
"Male/Female" by Jonathan Borofsky
Very interesting sculpture!
ReplyDeleteVery cool!
ReplyDeleteEr, that's a big trowel. It's kind of scary...;-)
ReplyDeleteI love sculpture gardens..we have one at our botanical garden. The horse is excellent. gail
ReplyDeleteHi Jean, that was great, I love the giant trowel, and all of them really. The siting is well done, so important for these types of things. Thanks for showing us.
ReplyDeleteFrances
Jean, I love big sculpture like that trowel. Of course, I don't have the size property something that big would require, but I'd love to have something like that.
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Always Growing
The trowel is completely mad and I love it! This is such an interesting post - thank you.
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