Las Pozas.....a surrealist's dream garden

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I watched a documentary last night about Las Pozas last night. I had never heard of the place before.

It is one man's dream of Eden in the middle of the Mexican jungle......it is absolutely stunningly beautiful, whimsical and pure fantasy

I would have loved to have visited this garden, there are wonderful photos in this link...

Inside Las Pozas, Edward James' Surrealist Garden in the Mexican Jungle

Edward James, one of the most eccentric and interesting twentieth-century collectors of surrealist art, arrived in Xilitla, Mexico at the end of the...

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The official website for the garden...

Jardín Escultórico Edward James, Las Pozas

Jardín Escultórico Edward James, Las Pozas<

www.laspozasxilitla.org.mx

Tbh I also think that the structuring of the garden could be interpreted into an aquascape for aquariums....its so creative and different

 

[GaryE]

Doing things on that scale is wild = but there is absolutely nothing that keeps the creative artist in us from going to work in an aquarium, or two. I don't like the Japanese style of tank that looks fantastic for a month and then gets torn down - but the creative possibilities remain. Surrealism? Nature does weirder things than surrealists came up with, and there's a lot we can interpret.
Not interpretive dance though. Fishtanks.