{"id":86,"date":"2012-11-19T02:21:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-19T02:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=86"},"modified":"2014-10-01T03:46:57","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T03:46:57","slug":"paradise-gardens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=86","title":{"rendered":"Paradise Gardens"},"content":{"rendered":"

A couple weeks back I visited Howard Finster’s Paradise Gardens<\/a>. I’d never heard of Finster before visiting the High Museum in GA and had been sort of plotting to see the place ever since.<\/p>\n

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He’s probably most well known for the type of work featured in this post<\/a>… the fact that I included such a photo in a post relating to a client’s mental illness tells you what I think about Finster’s mental stability, but anyway…<\/p>\n

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Rather than being turned off by the religious nature of his art, I think I like it because of that… it’s so improbable to find bible verses painted on bicycles, on Cadillacs, on windowpanes and random pieces of cardboard. <\/p>\n

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Sadly, most of his “good” art has been carted away to museums and what’s left behind at Paradise Gardens is mostly just the weird stuff, but I enjoyed that, too.<\/p>\n

; )<\/p>\n

I could (and may just!) do a whole post on the randomness of the place.<\/p>\n

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Mostly I thought I’d share these couple pix of the mosaic work I found throughout the garden…<\/p>\n

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Finster was a collector of found objects and a recycler extraordinaire.<\/p>\n

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Nothing there is very well-kept anymore, but that makes the beautiful bits that much more interesting, I think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A couple weeks back I visited Howard Finster’s Paradise Gardens. I’d never heard of Finster before visiting the High Museum in GA and had been sort of plotting to see the place ever since. : ) He’s probably most well known for the type of work featured in this post… the fact that I included … Continue reading Paradise Gardens<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,8,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}