Giggling In The Rain With Orange Umbrellas by sandra46
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Les Jardins de Métis/Reford Gardens, at Grand Metis, Quebec, host the International Garden Festival. Launched in 2000, it ranks among the leading garden festivals in the world, and presents temporary gardens at the cutting edge of garden design, landscape architecture, design and environmental art.
In the work 'Poule Mouillée' (Wet Pool), by a group of Quebecker artists, water dances to the choreography of garden sprinklers, activated by movement sensors, creating a space in perpetual movement colored by the orange umbrellas. This installation takes roots in the collective memory, reminding us of spontaneous childhood water games, with 66 sprinklers that remind us of the residential garden.
I tried to capture the fleeting moment of beauty and joy that this splendid installation gives to both the casual performers and the viewers. How to seize the instant of this interactive masterpiece? Two Quebecker teen-agers played a kind of fashion show for their parents during a rainy day. They giggled in the rain from the sky and from the sprinklers.
I don't know whether this interpretation of a jolly instant, which was THE WORK OF ART in itslef could be seized in the dance of the orange umbrellas of my collage. In a way this is a follow up of yesterday's musings.To you the hard sentence.
Thank you for your kind commens.
Comments (44)
Radar_rad-dude
Beautiful bright colors! Fantastic artistry in this photo! Superb!
blinkings
Great idea. I love it.
Hendesse
Excellent and funny collage. Looks fantastic!
myrrhluz
This gave me a feeling of warm, bubbly, pleasure. A perfect capture and design to portray this joyeous event. Very well done!
MagikUnicorn
Another cute collage
greensleeves81
This is an amazing art work! A unique one.
Thetis
superb! just love it
wysiwig
What a joyful image! A worthy successor to Gene Kelly's 'Singing in the Rain'.
lucindawind
fantastic work ! great for a commercial use also
junge1
Beautifully done!
Biffowitz
Very clever work, I love it!
HADCANCER
Very nice collage.
anahata.c
more lovely musings from you, and another loving montage. Put it this way: An oil painter paints some fruit. Then he/she decides to add a window and a bird. Did he/she ruin the art by the latter? You took a work of art—the umbrella installation—and you added those shots of the dancing teens. Is that different from the painter in my example? You made a work of art out of one "given" artwork—the installation—and several "captured" artpieces—your photographs of teens; and you made a montage of them. Result? A new work of art. Even if you photograph a city street, the very fact that you wait until X number of people are present means you waited for nature to manipulate itself till you had the image you wanted. We're manipulating the universe constantly as artists. And your resultant image is a delight: All those oranges & greens & plays of the blues (of the teens' clothes) along w/ the rain, etc, make a playful music. More fun & thought from you. (If I took this image—already a composite—and did an abstract with it? It'd be yet another work of art. I'm not saying it'd be likable, lol, but it'd be more art. Because when I see this, I see oranges & greens & blues & all kinds of dancing shapes, in addition to the wonderful teens. There's another work of art lurking in there! It's Talmudic: Art upon art upon art...)
mariogiannecchini
Bellissimo momento !