City of Boulder, CO Creative Neighborhoods Projects, 23 Jun 2021

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From YouTube: Artist Interview: Linda Park

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Now working at home, master gardener and photographer, Linda park is creating fairy gardens to share with her neighborhood. Using her love for plants she has been setting up fairy gardens at the front of her home to bring joy and wonder to her neighborhood. Creative Neighborhoods: COVID-19 Work Projects was launched by the Office of Arts + Culture and Create Boulder: https://boulderarts.org/public-art/creative-neighborhoods/covid-19-work-projects/

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I'm linda park, I have been doing photography um under my name, linda park. Photography, nature, nature, photography mostly for the past four or five years, selling, mostly selling my photographs online. It shows that's my side, fun enjoyment career. Besides my other career.

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It's affected my life in that I'm now sitting at home instead of sitting at the office at cu and most staff at cu. Boulder will not be coming back um for we don't know how long so it's been. You know it's been kind of difficult for all of us to share a smaller space, um all working from home, not getting into each other's way.

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I mean it's, that's one of the tip, but then the positive side is that we've got to spend more time together, it's really nice being at home and creating my fairy garden and expanding on it and watching it and watching it evolve.

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So I, um besides being a photographer. I also I'm not doing it right now, but I was also a rutgers master gardener, so I've always really loved plants and gardening and I've had fairy gardens for numerous years where I set them up in our old places and usually in locations where people won't necessarily see them right from the front. You know where they're more hidden, because I always felt like well. Maybe someone would um take some of the things that I put together or you know just.

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I was concerned about um like safety of my little special fairy gardens, but as soon as I got as soon as I started working from home on march 11th, I said you know what there's so many people walking by our street we're in martin acres, which is a wonderful, wonderful, wonderful, neighborhood, very community oriented, and I saw this is the first time I saw so many people crossing. You know crossing in front of the street in my window.

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You can see my windows right there, so I stare I stare right outside, um so I'm seeing everybody I'm like I'm putting my fairy gardens front and center right at the front of um right next to the sidewalk basically, and it kind of grew from everything I've had to. Then it started to get more and more and I had tons of neighbors. You know young old all day. You know like just so excited to come and look. I have um fairy fan regulars, I call them.

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I have my regulars who come every single day who come and look so I'm changing things up, I'm building things out and since I've gotten the grant money, I've been able to suspend. You know a little bit more money in in making different.

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I have all these different themes, so it it just keeps growing and will continue to grow and because I feel like I have an obligation to to my neighborhood to you know, keep this going and the joy that I see on on little ones faces and I've gotten pictures and- and I have one um I have one little girl lives around the corner who comes, and she adds little things to my fairy garden, just so sweet. It brings me joy knowing that I'm bringing joy to to others.