Stan Hywet Hall and Garden Magazine - Spring/Summer 2008 - (Page 7)

The “adventure” also includes a look at recycling. One exhibit, for example, explores vermiculture, the practice of using worms to transform organic waste into fertilizer. Less organic is the work of 2008 artist-in-residence P.R. Miller, known around the Rubber City as the “Grizzled Wizard” of waste not, want not. His giant flowers will be on display throughout the grounds; blooms made out of recycled materials — scrap metal and plastic collected from local factories, pieces of old machinery, glass, wood, wheels, fans, cable ties, and “whatever anyone throws away.” The flowers — anywhere from two feet to eight feet in diameter — will be elevated up to 20 feet on tubular-steel stems. “Working with ceramics or glass, I make these circular shapes that are very crystalline. There’s a flower over at Stan Hywet that’s made out of golf clubs.” Miller’s flowers are embellished with a total of 100 bugs and butterflies butterflies Miller’s flowers are embellished with a total of made by students out of weather-resistant materials from their own home waste — milk bottles, old computer parts, bicycles, sports equipment. made by Northeast Ohio students out of weatherresistant materials from their own home refuse — milk bottles, old computer parts, bicycles, sports equipment — during workshops at Firestone High School and the Miller South School for the Performing Arts in Akron, Garfield Heights High School in Garfield make bugs and flowers from recycled materials.) He also created the “rolling ball sculpture,” which he describes as a “tennis-ball railroad where kids will be able to observe the physics of spheroid mobility,” on the tennis court in the northwest corner of the property, and the 10-foot-high butterfly sculpture with wings made of recycled compact discs stationed beside it. 100 bugs Heights, and the Spring Garden Waldorf School in Copley. (Miller will be hosting summer workshops in the Corbin Conservatory where kids can and do things that look more like lilies or irises, things that are more sculptural than just a daisy or a sunflower,” he says. “I just recently started working with hot plastic, right out of the extrusion machine, so I’m able to www.stanhywet.org http://www.stanhywet.org

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