Saturday, June 29, 2019

Wondering Again

I got a lot of grief for wondering, a couple of months ago, how the sculpture exhibited at the train station was chosen. Incorrigible, I am wondering again, this time about a different kind of public display: the "landscaping" at the entrance to Cedar Park Cemetery.

Once upon a time, this bed was filled with yucca plants, surrounding a boulder, which seems to be a ubiquitous element in municipal landscape design. The yucca plants gave way, in recent years, to a sad array of annuals. Yesterday, there was this: what appear to be pieces of salvaged ceramic sewer pipe fashioned into planters and arranged on a bed of gravel. I persist in asking the question: Who makes these decisions? 
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  1. leonardo sideriJune 29, 2019 at 2:29 PM

    The is a good example of banal upstate coolness in the mind of those that created it. They also have Jesus on their front lawns.

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  2. VincentJune 30, 2019 at 7:19 AM

    Is that rock a Colarusso ad?

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  3. TheVideoCommunityJune 30, 2019 at 8:38 AM

    There is brutalism in architecture, and now in landscape design as well.

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