Category: Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park

Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park on 021823

Yesterday was one of the happiest days of my life.  I met with my sons, daughter in-law, and almost-2-years-old granddaughter at Meijer Gardens where we spent about 3 hours together, wandering around the place.  Not only does it have sculpture installed throughout the inside and outside of the place, there are galleries with special guest…

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The image is a picture taken on 2/26/22 of a sculpture, “Circus Acrobats” by George Segal at Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park.

dVerse — Haibun Monday — Cold Mountain

This weekend I met up with my family at Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park in Grand Rapids to walk the indoor gardens. After my younger son, his wife, and their baby daughter left, older son and I took a stroll through the Japanese Gardens outside. As we walked through and around the pond we were…

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dVerse — Poetics — Repurposing

“I’m in a glass case of emotion.” -Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, 2004 – Repurposing I’m in a glass case of emotioncasually placed on your shelfa trophy for the world to seeyet suffocating, dessicating,becoming a museum piece;an oddity, an icon of other times,something you visit on “free day” Let me be your Wardian casedeep…

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Sculpture Saturday #53 — Iron Tree by Ai Weiwei

This is a new challenge for me.  Susan Kelly hosts Sculpture Saturday.  Meijer Garden and Sculpture Park is full of sculpture.  My favorite sculpture there, by one of my favorite big artists,  is Iron Tree by Ai Weiwei.   Learn more about Iron Tree here.

dVerse — Haibun Monday — Spring Promise

Sakura Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park opened in April 1995 in Grand Rapids, MI. Since then, the gardens have expanded and the sculptures have increased to 158 acres and nearly 300 sculptures. In June 2015, an 8-acre Japanese garden was installed that includes a stand of cherry trees. I’ve walked the Japanese garden several…

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