From the category archives:
Near the Rodin Sculpture Garden on the Stanford Campus in Palo Alto, California, environmental artist Andy Goldsworthy and eight skilled dry-stone wallers from England and Scotland worked steadily for three weeks in 2001 to construct Stone River. For this sculpture, Goldsworthy and his team chose sandstone salvaged from university buildings destroyed in the 1906 and 1989 earthquakes – an original and creative way to reuse local materials.
continue reading …
{ 1 comment }
It is from Japan’s Hakone National Park, situated southwest of Tokyo amid the volcanic mountains and verdant forests of Mt. Fuji’s Five Lakes region, that California’s Hakone Gardens takes its name. Overlooking the Valley of the Heart’s Delight (now known as Silicon Valley), Hakone offers not only a global heritage forum for art and culture, it provides each guest a healing sanctuary from the stress of modern life.
continue reading …
{ 1 comment }
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. ~ Leonardo da Vinci
{ 0 comments }
Images whose color and form change and refresh our state of being are images that renew. They possess a magical, transformative power. Interior designers and artists have long recognized how profoundly color and form impact our psychological and physiological states.
continue reading …
{ 0 comments }
