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Maximizing Your Curb Appeal with Professional Shrub Pruning Services

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These days, curb appeal is everything. If you want your property to stand out, professional shrub pruning services are the answer.

These services transform your landscape’s appearance, but it’s not just about looks. Expert pruning will also enhance tree and shrub health.
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Yes, It Exists: Pentagram Hedge

Pentagram Hedge
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If you’re paying attention here, then you might recognize the above Pentagram Hedge as a work by artist Joseph Grazi, from his exhibit, God Complex, which we reviewed here on The Gig last month. But the Pentagram Hedge is such a marvelous thing, that it deserves an encore appearance. Because, Pentagram Hedge.

Joseph Grazi’s God Complex at Joseph Gross Gallery

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If you love Skulls and Taxidermy Bats as much as I do, you will flip out over NYC-based artist Joseph Grazi’s new collection of sculptures and drawings, God Complex, up for just three short weeks at Joseph Gross Gallery. Seriously, it is pretty awesome.

Pentagram Hedge Maze
Pentagram Hedge Maze Sculpture. Yes, I just typed that.

According to the shows official press release, these artworks, “illustrate man’s increasing dominion over the natural world. With the human brain being the most complex structure existing in the known universe, we have been given the ability to manipulate the environment as we please and, ultimately, bend nature itself to our insatiable needs.” I can’t say that I disagree with that statement. Continue reading Joseph Grazi’s God Complex at Joseph Gross Gallery

Dan Graham Hedge Two-Way Mirror Walkabout (with Günther Vogt) On The Roof of The Met

Dan Graham Installation
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Hedge Two-Way Mirror Walkabout is a site-specific installation by Dan Graham which was installed in April of this year. Comprising curves of steel and two-way mirrored glass set between ivy hedgerows, Graham’s structure is part garden maze, part modernist skyscraper facade. Viewers who enter the work are transformed into performers; in glimpsing their own reflections, they are also made acutely aware of the act of looking.
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