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New Installation “Sculpture in the Garden”

July 19, 2018 by David

The Crouching Figure Post
The Crouching Figure

The Back Story

This installation was made for the garden of a neighbor who travels the world collecting and teaching about exotic plants.  He has thereby created an amazing garden at his home in Indianola WA.  We have worked together on several projects over the years.  He was interested in a series of posts for installation in his garden.   He was interested in evoking some of the spirit of the Janseung  (a type of totem-like carving from Korea) that he has encountered in his travels.  Starting  at this point I began to research and draw.

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Filed Under: carving, Installations, News, Process, sculpture Tagged With: Art, carving, craft, garden art, indianola, Indianola Washington, primitivism, sculpture, tentacle, windcliff, woodworking

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