Garden Crosswalk

Description

Garden Crosswalk started with a photo that I took in Hamilton Gardens in New Zealand, where I was standing under a trellis structure built over an intersection of walkways. I planned to put that structure in last, and found that I could not get that effect because of the scale and point of view that I had established — not to mention misinterpreting the design of the bricks in the intersection. So I have three posts of a structure, and trying to create the part that would connect to the fourth one, behind the viewer so to speak, just didn’t work.

I added the shadows last, partly because I was also adding shading beneath the benches, and also shaded the farthest post and part of the trellis, and that at least created some dimensionality to the piece.

The benches are Etal, a kind of metallic paper, my first use of that, though I’ve had it around for a while. And next time, I’ll just glue it on; it kept breaking the thread as I tried to sew it!