Landscape architect + four artists= a day in city of Logan/Brisbane

Yesterday all four of us (Nikki, Brian, Dan and Margi) met up with Peter to journey with him through two of his projects. We hired a red bullet, piled in and tore down to Logan, to a wetland/parkland that had been planned and built by Peter's landscape company. some of the photos are below.  we walked these walks, crossed these bridges, heat rising, children's voices, silver eagle keeping a safe eye over the theatrical space, neat, tidy and new. but not so new: "how did you find out about this park" I say to one of the little girls playing on the path "i've come here since i was a baby" was the reply...it has always been and always will be it seems:

wide paths took us through the wet lands 

The paths were wide, enough to accommodate multiple users (bikes, prams, skateboards, joggers) and they wound around, very organic, reflecting the round edge of the body of water (is it called a lake, a pond, a dam, a river...)

we stop and look below on each bridge we cross, and looked below. brian insisted it was cooler standing on the bridge

Peter was very happy to talk about everything, and we noticed he liked to weed along the pathway when the weeds were of an outrageous size...what impacted me on this show and tell was the paths, so wide and solid made of concrete...Peter added that 1km of path had to be dug up and re done because the workers messed up...1km of track is a long way, and there are about 8.5km of paths throughout this place...it is almost a study of paths, and i am thrown to Robert Frost's poem:

Two roads diverge in a yellow wood
and sorry i could not travel both
and be one traveller, long i stood
and looked down one as far as i could
to where it bent in the undergrowth.

the tree that heals itself

Paths, healing...lead me to Buddhist philosophy...paths lead to choices...paths lead to adventure and not knowing. as we walked the paths, we did not know where they would take us but we did know that such an expensive path could not take us too many places!

we are working together again today at Metroarts...