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I went to the PepsiCo Sculpture Garden near my house here in NY. They have a lot of sculptures by well known artists. There was work by Rodin, Joan Miro, Henry Moore, Alexander Calder, Max Ernst. My favorite favorite was the giant garden hand shovel by Claus Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen. But what was really cool to me was the landscaping and all the gardening that surrounded the sculptures. Where each sculpture was placed was so thought out with its own unique landscaping. For example the Oldenburg was placed far from the path on a great open lawn, while the Ernst, which was much much smaller and detailed, was right next to the path between two flowering bushes. It's cool and a little strange to think about how each flower, tree, pond was placed there intentionally; nothing was really growing there naturally in a way. I just never had really thought about landscaping design seriously and how their materials are grass, trees, flowers but they're working with the same principles like repetition and scale. They had also labeled all the plants, which in this context was like titling them; the giant shovel was simply called Trowel II, just as the trees were simply labeled White Birch or whatever. It was an interesting parallel.

--Chloe Crawford