Latvian Garden of Destiny as Place for Inspiration to Implement Dreams
XXI Generative Art 2018 2018
Silvija Ozola

On an island in Koknese on the Daugava there is a place where the past, the present and the future of the people as well as the nation merge to give solace to the past, strength to the present and inspiration to follow your dream in the future. Landscape artist Shunmyō Masuno from Japan has visualised the Garden of Destiny, which is an architectural ensemble of monumental landscapes and has been shaped as the metamorphosis of the choir suite – it consists of the prelude and six parts, which are divided in three zones. Each zone relates to its own time and space, but all-in-all it symbolizes eternity. Latvian architects Andris Kronbergs and Raimonds Saulitis along with the “Design Bureau ARHIS” and the people of Latvia are all helping to implement this dream. The Garden of Destiny was created for the memory of all the inhabitants of Latvia whom Latvia lost during the 20th century, the ones who perished in wars, the repressed one, the ones who were forced to go to exile or suffered any other way due to their political views. Almost in every family there is a victim. The Garden of Destiny is a symbol of nation’s continuous growth and development, as well as a place, which tells us in a symbolical way what the cost for Latvian national freedom and independent state was, simultaneously confirming independence and power of Latvian nation, which has enabled it to endure and anticipate better future. The Garden of Destiny, founded on August 11, 2018, gives us not only joy with the blue waters of the Daugava and changeable gradations of the sky, but also cheers us up with the saturated green shades. What inspires the human nowadays to find strength and implement intentions? How to reveal completely the architectonically organized environmentally emotional qualities so that they would address the human? Where is the power of symbols hidden?


Atslēgas vārdi
Andris Kronbergs, architectural ensemble, Latvian Garden of Destiny, symbol, Shunmyo Masuno
Hipersaite
www.generativeart.com; www.generativeart/ga2018ebook.pdf

Ozola, S. Latvian Garden of Destiny as Place for Inspiration to Implement Dreams. No: XXI Generative Art 2018, Itālija, Verona, 18.-20. decembris, 2018. Milan: Domus Argenia Publisher, 2018, 397.-414.lpp. ISBN 978-88-96610-34-3.

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