Play on Light: A Unique Sculpture Garden

By Kim Charles

Jay Sifford takes us on a journeying through his carving garden in Charlotte , NC .

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“ As some of you know , I have been in the process of creating a carving garden in a forest clarification here in Charlotte . This garden , originally design to be seen from my nursing home ’s window and not to be walk through , has evolved into a stroll garden with a new meditation orbit off axis at the end of the path . I also call this garden my Light Garden , as I have designed it to capture and expose the sunlight as it moves across the southern sky , finally backlighting the garden through the tree diagram . You see , I conceive that few people other than gardeners and artists really notice the ever - changing light patterns and intensity , so , in this vain , the garden acts rather like a large sundial . I have engraft striptease and pools of chartreuse leafage such as Everillo carex and Florida Sunshine illicium to mimic and copy the beam of light of sun as they thrust the forest canopy . This tumble I added 6 vertical podocarpus on the upper hill to mimic lookout standing guard over the place and created “ shadows ” off of them with mondo grass .

This summer we built the speculation circle . Since most part of my garden would be bid “ copiously planted ” , I wanted an domain that is minimalistic and initiates reflective mentation . Therefore , the speculation circle includes only three items : a stone heavens , a honed seating boulder and a upright sculpture . rude boulders make dance step that lead to this area . The sculpture , while industrial in style , combine well with the surrounding beech Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree with compliments to colour and shape . I call her my “ timberland person ” . She stands in contrast to the blade ballerina sculpture that is close - by .

This has become a favorite part of the garden for me as it ’s declarative of my resource and current esthetic , and how I can blend them in interesting ways to verbalise for the wood that I call home . ”

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