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Stone Forever Leads the Way
Stone Forever Leads the Way

It started for me with the rejuvenation of those original turnpike walls. By the second year on the property I was designing and building a circular sunken garden space next to the house under construction. One wall section reached 11’ in height. During the third trip around the sun the site saw more dry stone walls rise around a greenhouse and attendant herb and vegetable gardens.

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Pumpkin Seed
Pumpkin Seed

The seed shape is fructuous. Its asymmetricality suggests continued growth and development. The entry point of the garden, the pinched end of the seed, expresses the concept of compression used by architect Frank Lloyd Wright in his design of foyers. His idea was to constrain the vestibule area to hasten movement toward the voluminous inner space. Compression springs expansion. The sense of garden bountiful is increased by passing through a narrow portal.

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