SITE: St. Johns Hospital – Oakland: Education Center
27351 Dequindre Rd (West side); Madison Heights
(North of 11 Mile Rd • South of 12 Mile
Conveniently located North of I-696 and East of I-75)
Meeting Information: Patricia Beer @ (586) 558-9767
4709 Year of the Dragon
Presenter: Jim Treece, MOAS MEMBER
Japanese Gardens:
Art works in progress
“Full Circle:
The Japanese-style
Garden as a Work of Art
in Progress”
DVD presentation
DVD presentation
For our May meeting, MOAS will turn to an art form that is particularly timely for spring: the Japanese garden. We will view a DVD titled, In Full Circle: The Japanese-style Garden as a Work of Art in Progress.
The Japanese landscape garden
is the world’s preeminent art form for evoking nature’s beauty in
three-dimensional space. Centuries of evolution have produced a rich vocabulary
of styles suited to varying needs, and a set of design principles shaped by
observation of nature and human perception. Experiencing nature through the
senses — in a heightened form as only art can do is at the heart of this vital
art form which continues to evolve in response to human needs and changing
culture.
In Full Circle
demystifies the process of creating and maintaining Japanese-style gardens through
examples gleaned from nationally respected designed David Slawson’s garden at Carleton College. The context-sensitive design
and maintenance process is broken down into its component parts: response to
site, client, and local materials.
The video demonstrates how the
same methods used by the garden’s designer can guide the committed gardeners —
artists in their own right — who tend the living work of art that a garden is
in succeeding decades. How is the designer’s original inspiration tended and even
improved year by year in creative response to the challenges that come with
time? As such questions are answered, we come to understand the garden as a
work of art in progress.
Jim Treece lived
in Japan for 22 years
(1974-78, 1981-87 and 1995-2007), and in Singapore for a year and a half
(1979-81). He was a business reporter for most of that time. He graduated from Carleton College
in Minnesota
in 1975 with a bachelor’s (BA) in history, with a concentration on Japanese
history. He is a new member of MOAS
and already offering his expertise as a presenter to the group. He has
been a member for more than 20 years of the Asian Christian Art Association,
and has volunteered to present a program on Christianity in Japanese Art.
He has lived and worked in Kyoto, Singapore and Jakarta.
Guests
Welcome: Members and Guests are encouraged to bring Asian artifacts to share
with the group.
Join us
at Mongolian Buffet, 12 Mile & Ryan, for dinner after the meeting
Visit
our web site, type: Michigan Oriental Art Society .in your search
engine.
