Western Stone Garden, Jacobsen (1978)
This placement of boulders with sections shaven off is one of my favorite examples of public art in Bellingham.
View Michael Jacobsen’s “Western Stone Garden” in Boulevard Park in south Bellingham.
My poem “Boulevard Park”, a merit award winning poem in the 2009 Sue C. Boynton Poetry Contest, mentions this installation:
“…
Jacobsen’s Western Stone Garden (with its
shaved boulders) echoes the islands ringing,
and beyond, the bay. Isabel Morca loved to
dance nearby; I imagine her flamenco at
water’s edge and see her dance – and those
boulders – as initial claims by beauty in
redeeming this land and this sea….”
Note: part of the City of Bellingham’s Public Art Project
Photo and excerpt of poem by Andrew Shattuck McBride
Read the complete poem “Boulevard Park” here.
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