{"id":3374,"date":"2010-05-04T00:09:48","date_gmt":"2010-05-04T04:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=3374"},"modified":"2015-04-25T01:53:25","modified_gmt":"2015-04-25T05:53:25","slug":"more-notes-on-venice-garden-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=3374","title":{"rendered":"More Notes on Venice Garden Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><big>I caught up with MB Maher&#8217;s photo account of the Venice Garden &#038; Home Tour held 5\/1\/10, and these are his photos of Stephen Glassman&#8217;s studio.  <\/p>\n<p>Stephen Glassman pulled apart his stone, wire and bamboo sculpture exhibited at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelateshowgardens.org\/\">The Late Show Gardens, <\/a>a garden show held in Northern California last fall 2009, and used the materials to rebuild the stone <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gabion\">gabion <\/a> and bamboo fence for his studio in Venice.  (Photos of Glassman&#8217;s Late Show installation can be seen at the end of this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mitchellmaher.org\/lateshow\/\">slideshow<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/C26T1751-114.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/C26T1747-113.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Reusing the same materials, Glassman also created a smaller installation for his courtyard.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/C26T1731-100.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Glassman&#8217;s bamboo splitter tools:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/C26T1739-108.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Off-center post-swung gate, without hinges:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/C26T1752-115.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From the studio:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/C26T1736-105.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gale Beth Goldberg, in her book &#8220;Bamboo Style,&#8221; quotes Stephen Glassman:  <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Bamboo&#8230;allows me to work on an architectural scale with the gesture and spontaneity of drawing, and led me to the creation of &#8216;temporary monumental site work&#8217;&#8230;Bamboo is a model for social and technological structure that has existed for centuries in ancient bamboo cultures, but it is only just beginning to enter the Western world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><\/center><br \/>\n<\/big><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I caught up with MB Maher&#8217;s photo account of the Venice Garden &#038; Home Tour held 5\/1\/10, and these are his photos of Stephen Glassman&#8217;s studio. Stephen Glassman pulled apart his stone, wire and bamboo sculpture exhibited at the The &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=3374\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[551,33,112,30],"tags":[784,783,21,781,782,72],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paNJ2E-Sq","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3374"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3374"}],"version-history":[{"count":36,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64364,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3374\/revisions\/64364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}