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Penelope Stewart is an artist, curator/writer and publisher whose multi-disciplinary practice encompasses expansive architectural installations/interventions, alternative photography, artist books, and works on paper. Re-current themes address notions of cultural memory, of time and space and a considered approach to the relationship between objects, architecture, gardens, landscape and the places between – places to intervene, inhabit and above all activate. Whether it has been historic sites such as Musée Barthète, a small museum in France, or a museum like the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY or the deconstruction/reconstruction of a 19 th century book of botany using cyanotype, her intentions are to create sensory spaces, haptic experiences, transforming our perceptions and possible readings of space, time and memory.

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Penelope Stewart

Getting Lost at Lotusland

cactus garden

This morning I got up with the idea I would take a nice walk to the Lotus pond in the garden…  Well I walked and walked and stumbled upon the forest of pony tail palms and then found my way through what is called the theatre garden but still couldn’t find the pond.  Suddenly there I was in the cactus garden.a wheel barrow of cacti

I can’t get over the plantings.  So spectacular!  The perpendicular flowers are lovely as were the sort of fruit open and being consumed by insects… another pollinating feature.

cactus

I know they are incredibly phallic but they are fascinating.

cactus flower 3the colours are so beautiful.

cactus flower 4

pink

white cactus flower

 

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bapple

These looked to me like great big apples.

 So you can see it is easy to get distracted in this magical place.  Next post I promise to get down to business and show you how my project is developing.

http://www.lotusland.org