![The Pentagon of Peace ]](./garden/BOW22A-BowlPentagon.jpg "The Pentagon of Peace, April 2007 [65KB JPEG]")
On 2007-04-01 I brought my bowls out into the sunny garden to try out some installation ideas and see what shapes they would form. A spiral morphed into an arc leading to the tree, and then became a five-pointed star before contracting into a pentagon.
![Bowl star closeup from another angle ]](./garden/BOW20A-BowlStarClose3.jpg "Bowl star closeup from another angle, April 2007 [113KB JPEG]")
![Pentagon of bowls from above ]](./garden/BOW21A-BowlPentagonAbove.jpg "Pentagon of bowls from above, April 2007 [86KB JPEG]")
I was later quite amazed to find that some UFOs from outer space had landed in the garden and now gongs were sprouting from a tree. It was long believed that in ancient times gongs grew on trees high in the mountains of Tibet, but this is the first documented case of them being seen in their native habitat in the wild. Note the baby gongs ('tingshaw') growing into mature specimens.
![Arc of bowls leading away from tree ]](./garden/BOW09A-TreeArc.jpg "Arc of bowls leading away from tree, April 2007 [81KB JPEG]")
![Malc playing the gong tree, photo by diagonal Dafna Dori ]](../../events/garden/GAR22-MalcGongTree-photo-by-a-diagonal-DafnaDori_1114x735.jpg "Malc playing the gong tree, photo by diagonal Dafna Dori, September 2007 [189KB JPEG]")
![[ Bowls guarding the garden ]](../../events/garden/0623-LineOfBowls_750x992.jpg "Bowls guarding the garden, photo by Steve Clark, September 2007 [179KB JPEG]")
The
Bowl Garden was open for viewing at
Garden Party #1 on Sunday
2007-09-23, and the
bowls were used to accompany
Ruth singing.
Future Bowl Garden
workshops and
performances will be announced here in due
course.
© copyright Malcolm Smith 2007-04-01 - last updated 2008-12-13