Kathryn Lipke. Bronze Seeds from “Life Cycle” garden
Kathryn Lipke, garden plan for “Life Cycle” garden
The sculpture garden grew out of a desire to create a place where art is integrated with the four-season life cycles of prairie grasses, forbs and wildflowers. The garden is a place where people can engage in discussions while strolling or sitting quietly in contemplation. It offers space to experience the tension between imaginary dimensions and the constraints of space; it encourages study, solitude, and friendly encounters. The garden, like a book is perishable. And paradoxically man relies on the perishable to convey his desire for continuity and re-growth through the regeneration of the landscape. This is a place for people to develop ideas and allow dreams to soar while offering a dialog between art and nature.
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- Kathryn Lipke, leaf planted with grasses, the stones that form the leaf stem continue to form a river on the site
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- Kathryn Lipke, leaf, Core ten steel edge with steel forming the leaf itself, L,26′ x H, 36″ x W,16′
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- Kathryn Lipke, leaf with grasses plus tree that was included via bird droppings
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- Kathryn Lipke, river stones that continue forming the river on the site
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- Kathryn Lipke. detail of “Life Cycle” garden
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- Kathryn Lipke, detail of the river with the Seed in the background
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- Kathryn Lipke, bronze Seed, each section approximately 45″ x 37″ x 37″
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- constructing the Leaf at Bauer Fabrication in Duxbury, VT
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- fabrication of leaf
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- Kathryn Lipke, planting the leaf with native grasses and wild flowers
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- at Bauer Fabrication making the form for the seed
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- the Seed was thermal sprayed with zinc and bronze at Bauer Fabrication, Duxbury, VT
Prairie Garden, 2000, installed on the Court House lawn, Cooperstown, North Dakota
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, North Dakota; Ines Diedrich, Germany and Leena Ikonan, Finland both sculptors invited as representative of the Scandinavian and German immigrants to North Dakota.The garden was destroyed in 2012 to make way for a new court house building.
Materials: prairie rocks and boulders, prairie wild flowers with a seating element and sculpture of a seed sprout carved by the artists of a 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, An original log cabin from the prairies of North Dakota
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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. the site from the south side street
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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