Monday, September 26, 2016

Get Creative With Garden Sculpture USA

By Anthony McDonald


The time has come for people to start spending hours outside again. Physical fitness in America is at an all-time low, and our children are showing the signs. Teaching young people to be creative by making our own garden sculpture USA is an excellent place to begin improving health and well being in ourselves and our children.

Old barn finds are an excellent source of materials for any sort of yard art, but especially for those who prefer metal as their medium. Buy a second-hand welder, and get to tearing down and recreating. Not only does this make good use of old metal, but these pieces of art are easily moved, and the pieces will sometimes last for the life of the artist who made it.

Scrap metals artwork is a great way to show off an antique collection. Most everyone has at least a few old rakes, blades, or farm equipment laying around, and these can be modified to resemble animals, fish, insects, or geometric patterns. Sun catchers bought at the store are nice, but they fail to make a statement about the person living behind the yard art.

Art brings families closer together. The sense of accomplishment that one gets from completing a project is a boon in life no matter what the age of the artist. Parents who continuously encourage their young ones to be creative, and display their creations along with their own, raise more emotionally stable, creative, and happy adults.

Sometimes old artwork gets lost in those gardens now overgrown. These lost pieces are sometimes found decades later when a new yard art adventurer moves into the area. Finding a piece of artwork decades old and unique to some unknown creator sometimes becomes a treasured possession to one who also spends time making fancy hedgerows, and these pieces are deemed a gift.

Our current culture of indoor living has left us fat, lethargic, and unmotivated toward creative expression. Yards have become a forgotten zone, and we tend to think of them as a chore rather than a place of gathering. Anyone who grows food and flowers is different, and those who scatter art throughout the yard are in a class all their own.

In fact, many might regard boring yards as meaning boring people live there, and often they are right. Our yards, like our cars and our homes, should be a testament to the people inside. Americans have gotten too used to staring at the talking box in the living room, and they have forgotten to show the world how special we are through our independent and creative nature.

It is a positive change when we see our neighbors abandoning the television sets and sitting outside again. When sitting outside becomes creating our own sacred space, then our creative endeavors become revolutionary. It has been said that a journey begins with the first step, and for many of us, that first step is off of our own front doorsteps.




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