A collaborative art project - “The MoonGate” was recently completed in La Riviere. A moongate is a landscape design element to tease the viewers’ attention toward the other side of the frame and give a glimpse of what lies just beyond. 

 

 A little more than a year ago Susan Pharaoh and her husband Nick began to envision what a Moongate might look like on their property at 622 Valley Street, La Riviere. Susan explained how it all came about. 

 

It seemed to us that this was a worthy artistic endeavour and so I applied to The Manitoba Arts Council for funding. The reviewing panel gave a “thumbs-up” to the proposal, and awarded us a modest grant. The project included collaborative learning and teaching, sharing our vision with community, and using repurposed materials - pallet wood, odds and ends of ceramic floor tiles

 

Once we began working on it, ‘The Gate’ became a much larger project than we’d first envisioned. We incorporated the taoist principals of balance (yin-yang) and added extra visual and aural elements into the gateway.” 

 

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