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Archive for the Category ◊ Zen Garden ◊

A few more moments of Zen

Author: Paul Pikel

• Saturday, November 15th, 2008

So far the Zen garden hasn’t been very relaxing for me. I worked for a few hours just trying to refine the border of the garden itself. I moved much of the clutter from the center of the garden to the outer edges so that the view would be improved. I also had to decide what I wanted to keep, and what needed to go.

In this picture you can see how I removed the large stone areas in the top center and right side of the photo. The large mound of dirt in the foreground really needs to go. It is too large and so unappealing to look at. Once it’s gone it will really change the look of the garden.

The area where I am standing is on the rocks that used to be the center of the garden. I felt they would work better as a border instead of a focal point of the garden

There is just so much in this photo. Zen gardens are supposed to be relaxing and meditative. This picture has your eye so busy looking at everything that you can’t help but be stressed. Still a long way to go.

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My moment of Zen

Author: Paul Pikel

• Wednesday, November 12th, 2008

I was contacted recently by someone looking for help to revive and redesign their Zen garden. They had lost the person that had done it before me and had difficulties finding someone to care for the garden. I must admit I was very excited about the idea, and knew that this was something that I had wanted to do for some time. The following pictures are of the garden the first day I saw it.

As you can see the garden was very cluttered and didn’t offer the relaxing feeling of a real Zen garden.

The owner and I agreed that the previous design included too many features and elements. It just has too much going on. I think the most important aspect of the Zen garden is the rakes gravel. With the current design you barely noted the sand.

From this angle you can see how jagged the outside edges of the gravel flowed. It wasn’t smooth and soothing, but instead had hard drastic lines. I could see I would have a lot to do.

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