{"id":95789,"date":"2020-07-16T17:27:05","date_gmt":"2020-07-16T21:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=95789"},"modified":"2020-07-16T17:38:28","modified_gmt":"2020-07-16T21:38:28","slug":"succulents-and-ceramics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=95789","title":{"rendered":"succulents and ceramics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Following the new social distancing guidelines, by the time I came to the end of the prescribed one-way route through the Sherman Gardens last month, my camera battery was dead just as I reached the last garden before the exit; the succulent garden. What a disappointment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fortunately, my poor planning was salvaged when MB Maher paid a visit at magic hour earlier in the week and shared the images I missed — in particular, that cobalt blue agave bloom spike! — which I believe has already been snapped up and sold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The ceramic sculptures are part of the continuing exhibit Sculptura Botanica<\/a>, ongoing through September 15, 2020 at the Sherman Library and Gardens<\/a> in Corona del Mar, California. The botanical studies in ceramic by Dustin Gimbel seemed especially at home amidst the flamboyance of these leafy sculptural beauties, whether bromeliad or succulent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So glad Mitch grabbed photos of some of my favorite seedpods, the matte, jet black eucalyptus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And I completely missed these sinuous fern fronds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Good to know the sculptures double as strategic lookouts for birds as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mitch notes: “As Gimbel traces and also embellishes these natural forms, his work becomes that rarest of things; both a mirror and a window<\/em>.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n