A unique feature of the Bernice Garden is the art installation titled Telephone Poles. Created from salvaged telephone poles and scrap materials found in the Little Rock area. Framing the south section of the garden, the Telephone Poles create an aesthetic element that suggests the beginning of the garden. Read on for an eloquent description by Rod Bryan.

August 24, 2009
The telephone poles and elevated chain-link fences at the Bernice Garden embody the artist’s aspiration for transcendence. These cast aside poles once elevated the wires that transported our voices. This discarded chain link fencing, whose intended purpose was to prohibit entry, avoids the scrap heap only through artistic salvation.

Perhaps this place suggests humanity will attain a consciousness that renders phones, fences and cages unnecessary? The poles and fencing held aloft remind us that interaction is meant to be fluid, organic and present.

Grid-less.

As time passes, the vines that grow beneath the poles and fences above Bernice Garden will assume a position of foundation beneath them. Maybe the Bernice Garden is a good place for us to remember how to be and what to do.

~Rod Bryan

 

Thank you Rod Bryan for your stirring words. The Bernice Garden is focused on giving back to the South Main Street community through art. We hope you have a chance in your day to visit this sculpture park diamond in downtown Little Rock.