More than 1,700 bottles were dumped in a public garden in the name of art
Keira Hart-Mendoza, second from right, created an environmental art exhibition at Brookside Gardens during the month of April. By Dana Hedgpeth Dana Hedgpeth Reporter covering local breaking news Email Bio Follow April 26 at 1:44 PM The landscape in the Washington region is teeming with green as the spring season settles in — prime time for Brookside Gardens to attract visitors to its lush, immaculately groomed gardens, lawn and ponds.
“Brookside is beautiful,” Hart-Mendoza said. “Everything is in bloom, but you’re seeing this ugly trash like a punch in the face.” “An art exhibit that shows plastic bottles confronts us with the reality that when we throw our trash ‘away,’ it doesn’t miraculously disappear, it just accumulates elsewhere,” Oberle said.
“Marie in the Conservatory, All that glitters is not gold,” was created by Keira Hart-Mendoza in collaboration with Margie Jervis. “The idea behind it is that it’s dramatic,” Oberle said. “You walk through the gardens and you see all these bottles on the water, and the juxtaposition of this beautiful garden with all this trash promotes a conversation of how our waste is having a negative impact on the environment.
On Friday, Angela Kuan, 38, visited Brookside with her two young boys to enjoy the gardens and smell the wisteria, then unexpectedly came upon the exhibit of bottles. “It makes you sad,” she said. “It makes you think that if we don’t take more care with the things we consume, then we can ruin a beautiful place.”
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