wondering about Milagro’s tool shed?
the finished product!
Maybe you’ve walked by the Milagro Allegro Community Garden, attended one of our events, or seen photos of our colorful tool shed at the Northeast end of the garden. Or perhaps you’ve even witnessed our progress as we – along with two local artists, many student volunteers and several of our gardeners – made possible the transformation from its initial lumber and plywood beginings to its current state as a “stone cottage”. Where did our inspiration for this creation originate from, you might ask?
Well…one of the garden’s founders and Director happened to be enjoying her Sunday morning coffee and reading the New York Times magazine several months ago when the shed was still just a generously donated simple wooden structure built by the Los Angeles Conservation Corps. She happened upon an article about the work of Richard Woods, a British contemporary artist, and saw a photo of one of his projects, the “Stone Clad Cottage” and thought a similar look would jazz up the garden on a smaller scale (for the full-length article see http://www.nytimes.com/indexes/2009/04/19/style/t/index.html#pagewanted=1&pageName=19woodsw&). Woods is famous for covering things up, hiding objects — both large and small — beneath deliberately fake exteriors. The Cottages are one of his more recent projects in which he covered a set of cottages outside London in loud ‘‘stone cladding’’ not unlike the kind Britons use to transform their homes into their castles.
Milagro’s version also colorful, fun and similarly transformed our “shed” into a tool palace!!!
stenciling our stones
- our excellent volunteers helping paint
colors assigned to stones
painting away!
- spiffy finished product!
