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Ede my site specific sculptures
revisited (Lucien den Arend)
Taxodium Distichum, swamp cypress or bald cypress as site specific
sculpture.
The row of swamp cypresses I planted along the one hundred
meters long channel had grown quite well during the last fifteen years. Their girth had reached about 150
centimeters; and their 'knees' or aerial roots had also grown to proportions
above my expectations. The next pictures will show that. In my lecture which I
gave, around 1991, to the people who live in the area, I showed pictures of
mature Bald Cypress trees in their natural habitat in the south east of the
United States; I told them that their great grand children may get to see my
trees starting to look like that. But actually they are coming along quite well.
Coming from the north, I noticed that the eighty meters long retaining wall
looked
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reeds help strengthen connection with the water -
urban oasis - 1989/1993
- environment with swamp cypresses and retaining walls,
center De Rietkampen, Ede NL
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