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Land Art Project in South Africa
http://soekershoflandart.wordpress.com
Non-subsidised community based land art project in South Africa. Part of 10 hectare large Soekershof; Private Mazes & Botanical Gardens in South Africa.
- Added on: Dec 29th, 2008
- Country: South Africa
- Language: English
- Author: Herman & Yvonne
- Listed in: Sculpture Destinations
- Tags: sculpture soekershof land art wire art mama africa earth work
Recent Posts
Rock Art in the Dry Garden
Two landscape students of Blois in France are creating a new 1500 sqm large Dry Garden at Soekershof and this morning was dedicated to 11 students and 2 teachers of the Waldorf School in nearby McGregor. They made several rock paintings visual...
A Landmark in Klaas Voogds
One of the man made objects in the garden is the Pachycereus Plaatjies (’specie name’ after maker Marthinus Plaatjies). This wooden cactus is entirely made (ancient method) of restpieces wood without the use of nails and screws; just de...
Xolile about his ‘Mama’
“Mama Africa is a unique Earth Sculpture made of the Land. For me the significance of Mama Africa is homage to our roots and also that we are doing something so extraordinary; something to be proud of. Mama Africa symbolizes a strong per...
Natural sculptures
There is, we think, no garden that stimulates associative minds as much as a succulent garden. The ’strange’ shapes of succulents inspired Afrikaners to give names to plants which sometimes sound rude (but they don’t mean it that wa...
The Stone Age Cinema
A leaking concrete water reservoir inspired us to ‘recycle’ it into a ’stone age cinema’ in which the pictures don’t move but visitors move along the pictures in order to get the picture. The movie tells the tale of...
Three weeks ago …
Three weeks ago we installed our ‘cruise missile’. It’s four metres high, weights 250 kilogram and stands on a heep of 1.5 metres high. It’s our own design and made from rest pieces wood by local woodworker Marthinus Plaatjie...
Is interesting your work with land art
we have a center of art (land art) in Spain near barcelona; and think that is interesting open relations witn groups of anothers countries. www.cacis.cat
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