Artist’s View
Within my singular human experience there is a need to achieve, a need to create and a need to innovate.
Doing what you love is not about productivity; it’s about being out there, the creative process and the experience.
Visions of possibilities drift constantly, never stopping, moving from one idea to the next, exploring the conventional, the unconventional and the unique, a search for the perfect solution.
Kreye Garden (rear view)
-Kreye Garden (before)-
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To start the creative process we must question our motivation, why plant or build, the purpose, the goal, the client’s vision and the artist’s vision.
How will it be used now?
How will it be used in the future?
How will it mature?
How will it endure?
We explore all possibilities.
We look at function, form and budget.
-Massapequa Residence (Bay View)-(Jacuzzi Waterfall into negative edge swimming pool with diving rock)
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You can’t force nature.
Our best projects incorporate on-site elements. The artistic process develops around the project’s assets creating a unique end result.
RESIDENCE GARRISON NY
This site had an existing rock outcropping adjacent to the old Revolutionary War cannon trail. The rock outcropping was excavated to reveal a 35’ rock face. Waterfalls, Ponds, Cascades and a Natural Bridge were constructed and the Cannon Trail was repaired/reconstructed.
-Residence Garrison (before)-
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We evaluate the relationship between spaces. What effect does the proposed work have on the existing site? What is the connection?
HEAD OF THE HARBOR RESIDENCE
This pond and waterfall were constructed next to an existing swimming pool. The waterfall was positioned as a transition from pool to pond.
Harbor Residence (before)
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Artistic vision goes beyond aesthetics. It must resolve how to paint the picture, how to build, the engineering and the individual artist’s tools: brush, pen, shovel, machine. To paint or build or draw or plant.
You can’t design it if you can’t build it.
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THIS ARTIST’S BIGGEST CHALLENGE:
How can we convey a vision to a client?
Ideas are exchanged and a design emerges. Can a plan, pictures or previous projects fully reveal what the end result will look like, with all the details complete?
Design is more than ink on paper or a glimpse at possibilities; it is the beginning of the creation of MAGIC.
This book covers many aspects of our landscape construction principles and should afford any reader insight into the world of landscape artistry.
