Friendly Cobra

by Joan Carroll

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Friendly Cobra

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Joan Carroll

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Photograph - Digital Art

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If there any such thing as a friendly cobra, it was this one greeting you at the Imaginary Worlds exhibit at the Atlanta Botanical Gardens. It seems to want to envelop you in its hood. Creepy or friendly, you decide! This was an exhibit at the gardens in 2013 with 19 monumental sculptures and in 2014 it was back with 28 sculptures. Each sculpture is a living, sophisticated evolution of the traditional "stuffed topiary" technique. Thousands of meticulously groomed annuals are planted into soil-and-sphagnum moss filled netting covering the steel forms, hidden works of artisanship themselves, to carpet the skeletons in colorful patterns. Complex irrigation systems beneath the surface of the sculptures allow the plants to grow, and the creatures to flourish, in Atlanta's summer heat. The larger than life sculptures are transported in climate-controlled trucks. The exhibition of mosaiculture, the horticultural art of creating giant topiary-like sculptures using thousands of annual bedding plants to carpet steel armature forms, is the creative genius of International Mosaiculture of Montreal. The nonprofit group has staged wildly successful exhibitions of its work around the world, and the Atlanta showing will be the first major exhibition of its kind in the U.S.

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September 2nd, 2015

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