Land Art Project in South Africa

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Land Art in private mazes and botanical gardens

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Rock Art in the Dry Garden

Two landscape students of Blois in France are creating a new 1500 sqm large Dry Garden at Soekershof   and this morning was dedicated to 11 students and 2 teachers of the Waldorf School in nearby McGregor. They made several rock paintings visulasing their daily experience of life anno 2009. Maybe the Dry

Published on May 6, 2009, 1:12 pm

A Landmark in Klaas Voogds

Land Art Project in South Africa; The Cactus One of the man made objects in the garden is the Pachycereus Plaatjies (’specie name’ after maker Marthinus Plaatjies).  This wooden cactus is entirely made (ancient method) of restpieces wood without the use of nails and screws; just dewels and without

Published on May 5, 2009, 6:40 am

Xolile about his ‘Mama’

“Mama Africa is a unique Earth Sculpture made of the Land. For me the significance of Mama Africa is homage to our roots and also that we are doing something so extraordinary; something to be proud of.   Mama Africa symbolizes a strong personality which does not back down

Published on Feb 19, 2009, 12:58 pm

Natural sculptures

There is, we think, no garden that stimulates associative minds as much as a succulent garden. The ’strange’ shapes of succulents inspired Afrikaners to give names to plants which sometimes sound rude (but they don’t mean it that way, it’s just a way of expressing themselves) such as ‘Ou

Published on Jan 29, 2009, 2:54 pm

The Stone Age Cinema

A leaking concrete water reservoir inspired us to ‘recycle’  it into a ’stone age cinema’ in which the pictures don’t move but visitors move along the pictures in order to get the picture.   The movie tells the tale of the legendary Klaas Voogds as being told by locals.

Published on Jan 23, 2009, 7:58 am

Three weeks ago …

Three weeks ago we installed our ‘cruise missile’. It’s four metres high, weights 250 kilogram and stands on a heep of 1.5 metres high. It’s our own design and made from rest pieces wood by local woodworker Marthinus Plaatjies; hence the ‘botanical’ title of this wooden cactus: Pachycereus plaatjies One

Published on Jan 16, 2009, 10:09 am

The cactus labyrinth

Classical five circuit labyrinth of golden barrels at entrance of Klaas Voogds Maze of Soekershof. All barrels (Echinocactus grusonii) home grown.   And the labyrinth mother is still growing strong in one of the succulent gardens. The barrels were sown in February 2001 and in the course of 2003

Published on Jan 4, 2009, 5:02 am

The Fingerpointing Maze

Somewhere in the Klaas Voogds Maze is a Fingerpointing Maze where visitors can try to finger their way to the walking stick of South African cactus pioneer Marthinus Malherbe. Legend has it that Marthinus’ ghost is sitting on the bench nearby waiting for his wife Molly who is seemingly still

Published on Jan 2, 2009, 5:54 am

Observatory of the White South African Country Women

Sundial in Klaas Voogds Maze with 3 different times on the longest and shortest day. Based on local folklore but, partly, still very true! If a bunch of woman are stuck in the maze we always know where to get them. The daily activities of many farmer wives consists

Published on Dec 29, 2008, 2:18 pm

Tree of growing creativity

This is where our idea for Land Art got some ground under its feet: the ‘Tree of growing creativity’. The creation of the 2.5 metre high wire baobab tree at the entrance of Soekershof in the beginning of 2002 has an enormous spin-off for wire-artist Messina Mussindo (”You may

Published on Dec 22, 2008, 7:34 am

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