We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.~ Oskar Wilde
An outdoor vignette.
I had never thought of treating my garden as outdoor installation pieces until just recently. Yesterday I ran across the weird gardens site via art for housewives blog . I like how she infused bottle bottoms into the cement in her front garden. Recently, I saw a similar idea in the newest issue of ReadyMade magazine. They had a "mini-garden" challenge (utilizing particularly small garden spaces).
In one of the gardens they had collected some 100 green bottles ( to do this is a piece of cake if you follow their advice and throw a raging party), then buried them into the soil so only the bottoms faced up. I just think it's a lovely effect. I also posted a photo of this idea just last month, here in this blog. (You can see it again, here. Look under the glass conservatory.)
My own backyard is such a blank canvas. It would be so interesting to create something like this eventually instead of the usual concrete patio. So now I'm thinking, who can I convince to save their wine bottles?! Let me see, I'll only need a few hundred....
One of my fellow art collegues, once used colored glass bottles (the kind you can buy in sets of three at places like pier one imports or Cost Plus World Market) hand-wired them together with beads then dangled them upside down from the trees in the art quadrant at Cal State Long Beach. It really was beautiful, they looked like glistening jewels in the sunlight, trickling down from the branches to the grass. I always followed her work, since it was very much in the same vein as my own. For her Masters project in Fiber Arts, she created a series of dolls composed with everything from scrap cloths to copper scouring pads. They became mermaids, and fairies, and other fantastical beings. She had such a way of spinning mundane materials into extroardinary things. Like alchemy.
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| posted by Liquid Sky Arts at 11:04 AM |
