"Cleanse your mind and soul,
leave the fast pace of city
and take a stroll through my imagination"
Dan Klennert
...and what the imagination it is!
Dan, our stop at your wonderland was a final high note of our trip to Mt. Rainier
( My Mount Rainer Day Trip - to Paradise and Back - in Pictures)
in late October.
Wandering among your sculptures was only part of the treat.
Another part was talking to you and watching you selecting a piece of metal or driftwood and
saying: This will be a wing, or a head, or something else.
Blessed with vivid imagination you are!
Finding old metal that served people well for many years,
picking it up in fields, farms, junkyards and along the roads, giving it a second life,
a chance to serve people again - what a mission!
picking it up in fields, farms, junkyards and along the roads, giving it a second life,
a chance to serve people again - what a mission!
Field of Dreams. This is where dreams start...
I don't know what other people think when they see these neatly stacked piles of old metal.
My thoughts were: organization, organization, organization!
This views could serve as illustrations in a textbook on home economics.
Love it!
I leave it for you to peek inside during your visit... You won't regret...
Restroom anyone?
Dan is Picasso of old metal - came to my mind when I saw this horse.
And an image of Don Quixote came to my mind too.
It's a chain reaction - Dan's vivid imagination makes one's mind spin too!
"I ask you please to, not only look at what I have created,
also look at what I have used to create them".
( Dan Klennert).
'Others have seen what is and asked why.
I have seen what could be and asked why not'
(Pablo Picasso)
'There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot,
but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence,
transform a yellow spot into the sun.'
(Pablo Picasso)
There is much more to see in Daniel Klennert's Sculpture Park and Gallery.
It's located along State Route 706, on the way to Mt. Rainier National Park,
3 miles East of Elbe, Washington state.
Gallery open May through October.
Stop by and see EX-NIHILO - 'Something Made Out Of Nothing' (Latin).
Allow yourself plenty of time.
As for me, the glimpses of rusty pieces of old metal along the road will never look the same,
and I will feel the same way about the pieces of driftwood on the Washington and Oregon beaches as well.
