During the year 2007, when attention was focused on deciding a new version of the seven wonders of the world, I took part through the Applied Imagination atelier in planning and creating a themed installation for the Franklin Park Conservatory in Columbus, Ohio. It consisted of miniature versions of some of the candidates being considered, such as the Taj Mahal, a dollhouse scale interpretation (built on an approximately three x three foot base) I created with natural materials like twigs, gourds, dried leaves, pods and bark. After the buildings were finished, it was quite an interesting exhibition to install amid a winding, multilevel display of specimen plants, water features and steep rock formations spiraling upward to high glass ceilings. I spent many hours balanced barefoot on a narrow ledge some fifteen feet above the floor, installing the fairy scale Great Wall of China, secured with a hot glued surround of cork bark and moss to create the illusion that it had been built on this site several ages ago.
Great Wall of China (with Becca Stadtlander)
Great Wall (detail)
Taj Mahal
Petra, Jordan (studio view in progress)
Great Sphinx of Giza (in progress)
Sphinx on Site
Machu Picchu (with Becca Stadtlander)
Great Stupa of Boudhanath, Nepal (detail)
Great Stupa (studio view)
To be continued....
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