Orangutan is a photograph by Joan Carroll which was uploaded on May 21st, 2014.
Orangutan
The orangutans are some of the newest 2014 denizens of the enchanted gardens of IMAGINARY WORLDS: A NEW KINGDOM OF GIANT PLANTS at the Atlanta... more
by Joan Carroll
Title
Orangutan
Artist
Joan Carroll
Medium
Photograph - Digital Photograph
Description
The orangutans are some of the newest 2014 denizens of the enchanted gardens of IMAGINARY WORLDS: A NEW KINGDOM OF GIANT PLANTS at the Atlanta Botanical Gardens. The Perennial Garden hosts the orangutans, resplendent in gloriously shaggy coats of orange-brown sedges. One ape energetically "hangs" from a spectacular Japanese Snowbell Tree, while its companion sits sedately within a flowering tapestry of summer color that complements their fur. This was an exhibit at the gardens in 2013 with 19 monumental sculptures and in 2014 it is back with 28 sculptures. Each sculpture is a living, sophisticated evolution of the traditional 'stuffed topiary' technique. Thousands of meticulously groomed annuals are planted into soil-and-sphagnum moss filled netting covering the steel forms -- hidden works of artisanship themselves -- to carpet the skeletons in colorful patterns. Complex irrigation systems beneath the surface of the sculptures allow the plants to grow -- and the creatures to flourish -- in Atlanta's summer heat. The larger than life sculptures are transported in climate-controlled trucks. The exhibition of mosaiculture -- the horticultural art of creating giant topiary-like sculptures using thousands of annual bedding plants to carpet steel armature forms -- is the creative genius of International Mosaiculture of Montreal. The nonprofit group has staged wildly successful exhibitions of its work around the world, and the Atlanta showing will be the first major exhibition of its kind in the U.S.
FEATURED PHOTO, ABC group - H is for Horticulture group, 9/11/17
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May 21st, 2014
