Magnolias and Strange Fruit: Howard Finster (Part Two)

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Serpent in the Wilderness

Part two with more images from Howard Finster's Paradise Garden: these photos were also taken in April of 1990 with my beloved 35mm camera (Pentax Super Program).

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Those ubiquitous telephone line insulators - my great aunt had a pile of hundreds of these in the woods behind her house - and Finster must have used hundreds throughout the garden:

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The Hubcap Tower:

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A little closer to the cement wall in the above photo:

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The Bottle House:

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On the far right of the above photo is an assemblage/sculpture ~ details are below:

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No square foot of Paradise Garden was left untouched, including this little corner with wire and cement and encroaching vines, and the following photos with details on and along the garden path:

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(and more of those telephone line insulators):

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In the words of Howard Finster:

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