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Proportional Response
One of the real tricks in any art form can be the challenge of exercising restraint.  Bigger isn't always better, and both scale and size do matter.  In other words, just because you can create something grand, it doesn't always mean that you should.   This principle of proportionality has a sharp, specific meaning in the world of the custom watershaper, especially when clients ask for something that is oversized for the property or more elaborate than called for by the setting or surrounding architecture.  We all know where it comes from:  Clients have seen something they like, and it
Wanted: Water Artists
The way I see it, we watershapers can look at ourselves in one of two ways:  as diggers of holes in the ground that hold water, or as artists working with one of the most exciting mediums on the planet. For a lot of reasons, I like the second of those options, because the first is passive - the sole goal being to contain the water - while the second gets me more deeply involved with a truly amazing and malleable material. Once we look at water the way a painter sees pigment or a sculptor views stone, we see a potential for dramatic contrasts:  Water has a soothing effect, for example, yet it can be tremendously