Prairie Garden, 2000, commissioned by the GK Gallery in Cooperstown, North Dakota for a site on the lawn of the Court House ( a historical building). A collaboration between Kathryn Lipke,born and raised in Cooperstown; Ines Diedrich, Germany and Leena Ikonan, Finland both invited as representatives of the immigrants to the area. (The garden was uprooted in 2012 to make way for a new court house on the site).
Materials: prairie rocks and boulders, prairie wild flowers with a seating element and sculpture of a seed sprout carved by the artists from local river oak.
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- Kathryn Lipke, The garden site with the court house in the background
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- Kathryn Lipke, The bench for seating was carved from a river oak which grew near the Sheyenne River
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- Kathryn Lipke. the carved seed sprout
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- Kathryn Lipke, An original log cabin from the prairies of North Dakota
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- Kathryn Lipke, detail of flowers
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- Kathryn Lipke, collecting rock from the prairie for the site
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- Kathryn Lipke, placing stones to represent a river
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- Kathryn Lipke. one of the rocks moved to the site from the prairie with the wild prairie rose growing nearby