I have assumed, perhaps incorrectly, that they were the work of multiple people, possibly not particularly coordinated. Certainly I've pondered whether to build something to add to the collection, and I don't know who the creators of the existing pieces are.
ETA in response to your ETA: Curation takes work, in tracking the contents of the sculpture garden, and removing pieces that have been there "long enough" or are falling apart, and doing something appropriate with any removed pieces. (Discarding pieces without giving the creators the opportunity to reclaim them seems poor ... but so does keeping them elsewhere without the creators' approval.) How should volunteers be organized to do this? And whence their authority? There's thoughtful curation, and then there's the issue a while back wherein informal plantings in the area were being dug up and the plants carted off overnight, but I'm not where where I'd draw the lines on who has the right to place or remove what ...
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Date: 2014-04-25 12:26 am (UTC)I have assumed, perhaps incorrectly, that they were the work of multiple people, possibly not particularly coordinated. Certainly I've pondered whether to build something to add to the collection, and I don't know who the creators of the existing pieces are.
ETA in response to your ETA: Curation takes work, in tracking the contents of the sculpture garden, and removing pieces that have been there "long enough" or are falling apart, and doing something appropriate with any removed pieces. (Discarding pieces without giving the creators the opportunity to reclaim them seems poor ... but so does keeping them elsewhere without the creators' approval.) How should volunteers be organized to do this? And whence their authority? There's thoughtful curation, and then there's the issue a while back wherein informal plantings in the area were being dug up and the plants carted off overnight, but I'm not where where I'd draw the lines on who has the right to place or remove what ...