landmarks. She describes them as “assembled
mounds of gathered rocks, hand-built stone
by stone through the centuries by locals and
visitors to memorialize their summit or journey.” This ancient Scottish tradition has been
carried around the world, and now Hargrove
is bringing her unique interpretations of cairns
to Central Florida.
greens chosen for the landscapes are rarely
found in nature, yet they convey a sense of natural beauty. These unnaturally perfect colors
translate well into the larger golf map, since
golf courses are confined areas of manmade
nature. When the sport began in Scotland,
the early golfers used the natural landscape
as a course, but over time the landscape was
altered to accommodate the golfers. In 2010,
Another Scottish tradition that she takes notice Donald Trump purchased a large, protected
of in her work is golf. In her series War/Game, portion of Scotland’s coast that he planned to
she combines symbols from the game of golf turn into a golf course and luxury resort.
with international symbols found on military
maps. The tiles that comprise the series work Before 2010, the site that Trump purchased
as individual pieces, or can be put together was a sacred tract of land that was open to
to create a larger map. The vibrant blues and the public, but Trump managed to get his way,
and, against the local people’s wishes, the
protected four-thousand-year-old sand dune
system was destroyed. After years of bullying
locals and befriending the local police department, Trump’s plan succeeded, and the naturally beautiful scenery became a contrived
landscape. Scottish natives that had lived near
the dunes for generations were forced off of
their properties. Their water and power were
shut off, property was damaged, and one man
even lost a portion of his historic home. But
even after beginning construction and destroying the dunes, Trump threatened to abandon
the project because he did not approve of the
wind farm that was going to be located within his view. The documentary You’ve Been
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