Neototems Children's Garden

Description: This unique gathering area features a maze of paths through landscaped gardens leading to a bronze, five-foot tall baby whale tail fountain enhanced by water rolling over and cascading down the rounded lip of the tail, mimicking a breaching, or surfacing, whale.  The gardens surrounding the central figure provide a place of discovery for younger children with a series of ‘tidal pool’ five separate small bronze fantasy sea creatures: a sea horse, octopus, flying pig, hermit crab, and a blowfish family of three.

Artist Statement: On a simple level my work tells stories of a place, its people, its culture, land, and geology. On another level, I explore the thresholds between the public and the private. My work is also psychoanalytically based in that I chose the labyrinth design as a symbol of psychological challenge, where girl and boy heroes learn to explore, play and take risks on their journeys through life.