With spring hard on here in the valley, many of us turn to gardening. While I am the furthest thing from an outdoor gardener you could imagine, I've been working on my garden throughout the winter. In order to get it ready for a show in Canmore at
Sunny Raven Gallery this coming summer, I actually started it last fall.
I first spent some hours getting the right colours for the grass, and interspersing the blades between the pages of a disused law text (I was gifted a couple of dozen of these books some years ago now, and they've been a delight in the studio as well as to my students).
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| Layer upon layer of 'grasses ' interspersed between the book pages |
Once the grass was thickly planted on three sides of the book, I started coring . . . and boring . . .
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| Starting to core the book |
and occasionally gnawing with my teeth, to clear out the centre of the book.
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| More coring - messy abounds! |
Finally it was time to make those flower beds, and while I ultimately only used two in the garden, it's not so bad to have a spare bed in the house.
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| Creating the flower beds |
A garden sign and additional grass finished off the top of the book, along with a tiny birdhouse that the resident carpenter, John, made for it.
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| Cover of the finished book |
All my flowers are tucked away in the garden, safe from all the rougher elements and cozy in all seasons.
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| A Case for Gardening Altered book (Inside) ©Win Dinn |
How's your garden coming along?
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