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New Orleans Celebrates an Artful Autumn

New Orleans Celebrates an Artful Autumn

By Francesca McGlone on 19th October, 2010

City Park in New Orleans is currently hosting a Fall Festival, where aspects of autumn are embraced, as opposed to the immediately striking offerings of spring, when a garden show is commonplace. The festival combines art and nature in a complimentary blend. Art sculptures are placed around the city’s park, complementing the sculptural beauty already present in the winding trees, grassy banks and natural water features of ponds and streams. Nature already showcases artistry; however when offset with manmade pieces, the scene becomes richly engaging.

On a larger scale the botanical garden demonstrates how a natural and accessible space provides the perfect setting for social and creative pursuits, where the simple sights of autumn are appreciated together with the added infusion of art installations, live music, landscape design and even gardening seminars which transform the tempered pace of the park into a buzz of activity.

Judy Walker from The Times-Picayune interviewed Jeanette Roussell, a regular attendee to the show and employee of Landscape Images commented; ‘This time its going to kick off with the fall garden show but (the exhibits) will continue for a month, they’re really bringing in a lot more, and are taking a more artistic feel.’

The term ‘show’ has been replaced with the term ‘festival’ which encompasses the variety on offer within a park that thrives upon an eclectic mix of autumnal delights.
Plants are shaped in graceful topiaries in honour of special guest, Pearl Fryar, a self-taught topiary artist, who bestows her gardening knowledge in the seminars that take place throughout the festival.

Marking the autumnal landscape in an art installation with a novel twist, will be 150 life-size and miniature scarecrows, which draw attention to the autumnal harvesting and planting taking place that refuses to accept the notion of autumn as a barren season. Instead the eye is met by a host of exciting visual forms, all contained within the perimeters of a haven like setting.

Judy Walker also interviewed resident artist; David Tureau who commented; ‘It’s just a gorgeous time of year to be out in a beautiful place.’

Awash with exciting attractions New Orleans seems to be the place where autumn comes alive and is truly acknowledged as a period ripe with opportunity.




 


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