Created & Found Art- Overview

Created and Found Art

There are many ways to use art in the garden.  Make it a focal point, a hidden to-be-discovered- object of interest, a whimsical piece or “folly”, a meditative construct, on and on.  Gardens at Waters East  (GAWE) contains and showcases many different pieces of enjoyed art.

The art can be a hand crafted piece or a found object enjoyed by the gardener.  Place it where it will receive the “honor” you think it deserves.  Place it where it makes the statement your want visitors to “hear”.

 Japanese Lantern in Asian Garden

Your garden is your gallery.  You are an artist.

Objets d’ Art - -  acquired or self created have a place in that gallery.

In the Gardens at Waters East,  the following are some of the “art” placed in and around the garden.  In this posting only a couple of the objects are being “reposted” since most have already been seen in the past, or will be in upcoming entries.  Check out the archives for this Blog and you will see many of them from the past months.

Torso known as "Blade"

Blue Bottle & Stainless Steel Tree

Created:

Blue Bottle Tree

Cairns

Gazing Balls

Hand crafted steel sculpture – “1000 cranes”

Blade Torso

Triptych Sculpture

Port Hole Glass,  from the “Straits of Mackinac”

Kaleidoscope living planter

Ship Ribs from 1800s

Triptych steel sculpture on Antique Pillar

Port Holes from Ferry -  "Straits of Mackinac"

Found and Acquired:

Two different ship ribs salvaged from mid-nineteenth century schooners.

The chain on the ribs is from a ship once owned by Aristotle Onassis.

Viewing Stone

Driftwood  (some over 12 feet long)  from Lake Michigan

Large “olive” jar & bench

Buddha head

Lanterns with candles

Hand carve granite Japanese lantern

Many large stone  pots

Antique stone pillar from a home in Chicago

Salvaged gravestone – birth 1788 death -1861

Hand carved stone weight for water buffalo form Thailand

Blue Koi,  raku fish sculpture by Tyson Weiss, of Falmouth, Maine

Hand blown Blue Glass Pendant sculptures, from Mundo de Cristal,

Puerto Vallarata, Mexico

A Garden Cairns

The point is:  make your garden you with the things you treasure.

Treat the garden rooms like rooms in your home showcasing your collected art.

Reference Note:  For a complete list of the ten (10) Principles of Design used here and throughout Gardens at Waters East, check out the archive postings for November 14 – 24, 2010.

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