Morgan Garden - Johnson Art Museum - Cornell - Ithaca, NY - Japanese Gardens on Waymarking.com

"The designer of the garden, Marc Peter Keane, Class of 1979, lived for years in Kyoto, Japan, where he learned and practiced the art of gardens. His design is based on the karesansui, or dry-landscape, style of garden in which the image of the landscape and water is created without the use of actual water. In Japan, this often takes the form of stones set in raked sand, whereas in this garden it is the dry stream (kare-nagare) that is the waterless element.

The garden abstracts the story of the Three Laughers of the Tiger Glen, with the protagonists represented by three upright boulders. A cleft through a field of moss represents the ravine, the bottom of which is lined with small stones to evoke the torrent. The sound of running water in the nearby stone basin and the visual illusion of running water in the ravine are intended to mix within the mind of the viewer."

Name: THE REBECCA Q. AND JAMES C. MORGAN GARDEN Location (specific park it is located within): Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University City: Ithaca Fees: no Designer: Marc Peter Keane Date of Creation: 2011 Garden Website: http://museum.cornell.edu/morgan-garden Parking Coordinates: Not Listed

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