JAMAICAN METAL ARTWORK
I consider my privacy fence a blank palate. I love to hang
objects on it that enhance the plantings beneath them. Nothing is better for
this than the Jamaican Metal Art. I have purchased this art at my church’s
international market in the fall. I have used the website of www.serrv.org to order it, and I have ordered
it from a clearing house in Jamaica by googling Jamaican Metal Art and finding
something I like.
The artists in Jamaica use oil drums to make their
sculptures. Drums washed upon theirs shores during and after World War II. So
the artists took a hammer, and awls, hoping it is not just a nail, and pounded
out some of the loveliest things I have hanging on by garden fence. I have
beautiful angels on my garden gates guarding the entrances to my little Eden.
Along the fence on the east side, I have a tree of life, a sun, and a calypso
band of women adding to the beauty of the plants below them.
Everyone has their own style. A unique style dictates
individual pieces of art hanging on the fence and other objects place around
the plantings. I have worked long and hard on my sanctuary. I would encourage
you to decorate your quiet reflective place, and consider some of the pieces of
Jamaican Metal Art.
And lovely it is. Wish you would have posted them all. Great article. Is their a cultural myth t go with each, or do you get to make them up?
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