{"id":2369,"date":"2015-10-26T13:32:59","date_gmt":"2015-10-26T17:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/?p=2369"},"modified":"2018-11-12T16:46:47","modified_gmt":"2018-11-12T21:46:47","slug":"claes-oldenburg-trowel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/?p=2369","title":{"rendered":"Claes Oldenburg Trowel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While we were in Grand Rapids to see our niece Erica we followed up with time to get some Big Things.\u00a0 This Big Trowel was a nice surprise.\u00a0 It was in the Meijer Garden and Sculpture Park.\u00a0 What a great place.\u00a0 This trowel was, like all the sculpture installations, located outside and, in this case, a field of tall grass.\u00a0 This Big Garden Trowel was created by Claes Oldenburg and his wife Coosje van Bruggen.\u00a0 The Meijer web site states, &#8220;<em>Plantoir<\/em> is the first monumental sculpture created specifically for a garden context.\u00a0It was sited specifically by the artists.&#8221;\u00a0 I liked it a lot.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2370\" style=\"width: 177px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/15trowel.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2370\" data-attachment-id=\"2370\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/?attachment_id=2370\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/15trowel.jpg?fit=1601%2C2872\" data-orig-size=\"1601,2872\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 5&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1445866354&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.12&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;50&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0007380073800738&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Claes Oldenburg Trowel\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;15trowel &#8211; 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