Friday, September 30, 2016

Express Yourself With Garden Sculpture USA

By Anthony McDonald


It is important to get out from in front of a television set, move the body, and express the mind. A person can accomplish all three of these things by creating their own garden sculpture USA. In fact, some people have turned off their TV, turned on their creativity, and turned their hobby into their life work.

Anyone who buys a property with an old barn full of scrap metal has the perfect opportunity for a new hobby. An inexpensive welder can turn scrap metal into statuary in no time, and the noise is sure to provide hours of irritation for the neighbors. Metals hold up much better than ceramics, and can be moved with little or no risk to the piece being created.

Scrap metals artwork is a great way to show off an antique collection. Most everyone has at least a few old rakes, blades, or farm equipment laying around, and these can be modified to resemble animals, fish, insects, or geometric patterns. Sun catchers bought at the store are nice, but they fail to make a statement about the person living behind the yard art.

Smart families keep art as a family endeavor with creative parents raising more creative children. The sense of well being instilled in a child when their idea becomes art, and this piece is put on display for the whole town is huge. It teaches a child to value their own creation, and thereby instilling within them a sense of self worth and self esteem that will carry them throughout life.

Anyone who has found a piece of artwork created by another gardener decades ago, and left to be found by them, will keep that piece in a special place in the yard. These are gifts from an old garden, and it fills one with a sense of intrigue to find such a thing. A gift from one gardener to another can bridge a time gap that is measured in generations.

Our current culture of indoor living has left us fat, lethargic, and unmotivated toward creative expression. Yards have become a forgotten zone, and we tend to think of them as a chore rather than a place of gathering. Anyone who grows food and flowers is different, and those who scatter art throughout the yard are in a class all their own.

The minimalist approach to yard maintenance is boring, and tells people that those who live inside are boring as well. When we turn our yards into a display of our creative endeavors, we announce to the world that we are not satisfied to dwell in front of a talking box only. We tell the world that we see beauty in the mundane, and this makes us more interesting to others.

In fact, more and more people have abandoned their television sets entirely. Families are outside growing food and flowers, cutting metal and stacking stone. At this point in our cultural decline, perhaps the television set can be turned into a sun catcher, and the old recliner can become overgrown with wildflowers in the yard.




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