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Diggin' the sculpture garden

6/27/2020

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What came first, the shovel or the pine cone?

I can’t say how many times I’ve been down the road where we found the pine cones, but I’ve always been in a car, never on foot.

Last weekend in search of new walking routes, we set out early for downtown Westbrook. There’s a lovely river walk that beckoned and on Main Street, in the middle of town, a sculpture garden.
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That’s where we found these particularly large pine cones. It was only when we got close, really close, we saw the pine cones were made from shovels. They are the work of artist Patrick Plourde.

It made me wonder, what came first, the shovel or the pine cone?
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Though my collage work is on a much, much(!) smaller scale, they, too are made from repurposed materials, paper after page of sheet music.

I came to use sheet music after stopping at a yard sale. It was the end of the day and there were three big books of sheet music. As I was looking them, the woman who owned them said, "Twenty-five cents each. Otherwise they're headed to the dump."

Well, I wasn't looking for sheet music, but I was looking for was collage papers I could paint, cut, and make something from. I decided to give it a try.

Best decision.

Don't let a lack of supplies hold you back. Dig a little deeper and use some of this to make some of that.

p.s. Yes, pine cone is two words ... should have looked that up before I did the lettering. Grrrrrr.
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