Anna Chandler

Aren't I the Garden?

Steel, White cement

When I was brainstorming art in the garden, I knew I wanted to put myself into the piece. I grew up tending my father’s giant garden every summer and have always had a green thumb.  It frustrates me that we negatively interact with our environment, so given this chance, I decided to do something positive.  Aren’t I the Garden brings me closer to becoming one with nature as we all will become. The steel tree is made up of about 70 ten-foot round rods that branch off with cement casts of my hands, some of which hold snapdragon flowers. To make the hands I used skinwax to create castings of my hands and filled them with cement. Both steel and cement are used in buildings, which smother nature. I hope this piece will remind us of the beauty in the natural world that some of us have forgotten and destroyed.

Courtney Connell

Courtney Connell

Wind Chime

Ribbon and Aluminum 

Danielle Race

Where Sand and Sea Collide

Sand

12 feet in diameter

I am very influenced by nature and natural elements around me. Growing up in New Hampshire and Maine I was surrounded by woods, mountains, geology, and the ocean. I am very influenced by colors found in nature and natural landforms. Nature is inspiring and interesting and lead me to make a large ripple made of sand. The sand that I chose to work with is of many varieties. The bottom layer is a grainy yellow sand that was store bought. The middle layer is a fine grained yellow sand. And the top layer is pure grey sand from the coast of New Hampshire. I wanted to use sand that came from my hometown because it was important to me to use natural beach sand because of the texture, smell, and sense of home I get when I touch it.  In total, there was approximately 2,000 pounds of sand imported to the site, 400 of it from New Hampshire. My intention with this piece was to create a peaceful, tactile, ever flowing ripple effect using a simple element of our world.  As humans we manipulate our surroundings, but in the end, nature controls all and will take it back. Rocks to sand, sand to ripple, ripple to calm.

Meg Thomas

Pile

Plaster, burlap, gauze, wood, wire

6' x 54" x 40"

Meg Thomas

Hull

Wood

3' x 2'

 

Crazy Table

Full View-Mixed Media

Up close on the underside

 

I wanted to do something a bit over the top, something unconventional. I created the tower with remotes and hot glue, and then stuck colored clay in the form of balls to make it feel like they were taking over the table.

Close up with the lights

Christmas Light eggs

To make it more crazy I collaborated with Laura Basson. We put her eggs on the top of the table and wrapped Christmas Lights around the tower and let them take over the bottom and the DVD player.

Andrew Jacob

Andrew Jacob

Untitled

Plaster

This piece is based on the concept of people punching and stretching through a wall from the opposite side; coming from a non-existing space.  My intention was to capture a frame - to freeze a moment of action.

Caitlin Mechlinski-Art in the Garden

These are the before shots of my mushrooms

Small glass beads, hot glue and a found stem. All together there were 5 of them

Various Broken Glass Items, Hot glue

This is how nature has transformed my project. It turned out pretty awesome because nature has an effect on living things. 

 

 

This is the whole scene from the side.

I wanted to take a different approach to ‘Alice in Wonderland’ that is why they are bigger than an average mushroom. I thought of the mushrooms the moment I was told about The Art in the garden. I started with finding found objects and gluing them together to create the stems. I then proceeded to break glass so I could re-glue it back together in the shape of the mushroom tops. I wanted something that would reflect the light of the sun and still look bright in all types of weather.

Juan Otalvaro

Juan Otalvaro

Adam and Eve taking a nap

Bed sheets, plate, utensils, dirt and soil

This is a tragic piece that in a way makes us think about the consequences of disobedience. I've decided to work from the famous story of Adam and Eve for this sculptural installation because it exemplifies for me the price that we as humans have to pay every time we take the wrong paths in life.

Andrew Jacob

Andrew Jacob

Deception

11' x 5'

Steel

Deception is based on the idea of perception being a lie.

We each have our own beliefs of what is true, but things are not always how they seem. For example, we are not able to explain what gravity is, but we just “know” that it exists.

In Deception, my intention is to emphasize this idea. I wanted to create an illusion by using a solid and heavy weight element and present it in a way that deceives the eye.

Some Infinities are Bigger Than Other Infinities- Laura Basson

Some Infinities Are Bigger Than Other Infinities

Yarn
Laura Basson

Using found objects, photography, and video I create sculptures, performances, and installations that use many types of media to create new visual landscapes. Webs, nets, and their similarities to larger things such as constellations informed this piece. Using knitted techniques I created man made webs that bring to mind both nets and star groups whose invisible relationships become visible in yarn. 

"Challenged by Nature" - Virginia Hall

 Challenged by Nature is a chance to enjoy the garden, not just as an environment, but instead with the trees as personal company. In this take and barely give, society, humans are known to scavenge for more than what’s available from the environment.  For the most part, we choose not to accept the challenge of living in a “green” society, and therefore are reaping the consequences. Nature can’t play defense at the same intensity and rate that humans are on the offense.  So how do we play fair? Here’s a chance to confront the tree in a reasonable game of chess. With playing pieces available, sit under his eave and face his ageless wisdom.  

Courtney Connell

Ballerina Dryad

Courtney Connell

Metal, Ribbon and Tulle

Ballerina Dryad is my response to the appealing qualities of nature and it's unending ability to attract our attention. By using a pinkish color to accent different areas of the piece, I hope to bring to life the very cold silver look of the metal to create a clear contrast of organic versus industrial. The ballerina form was chosen for the graceful moves and organic flows, which are translated from nature. Growing from her waist are branches and leaves. This creates a piece that is both nature and human; noting the fact that we are one with nature, we come from the earth and after death we will become part of the earth again. The title came from playing off what the sculpture was suppose to be and adding the Greek term dryad, meaning tree nymph, to play with the idea of fantasy.