LIGHTSCAPES Launches 5/2 at Van Cortlandt Manor
By: Tyler Peterson Apr. 03, 2014
LIGHTSCAPES, a brand new immersive experience featuring sculpture, light, sound, and special effects, launches on Friday, May 2, and will run for 11 weekend evenings at historic Van Cortlandt Manor in Croton-on-Hudson, NY.
Ideal for all ages, LIGHTSCAPES is a walk-through, land-art experience. Visitors will enter through a rainbow and emerge from a bubbly haze into a dreamland of curiosities spread throughout a historic landscape. Recycled elements serve as eco-friendly building blocks for intergalactic flora and friendly woodland creatures. Otherworldly mushrooms, floating fairies, and beautiful butterflies are among the thousands of creations onsite. Path elements include an enormous walk-through caterpillar and a meandering butterfly maze. Larger-than-life elements like a massive praying mantis, a super-size birdhouse, and a dino-sized egg join thousands of smaller sculptures - more than 7,500 in all - to create the tableau. State-of-the-art illumination will highlight these works of art and showcase Van Cortlandt Manor's natural landscape and specimen trees. In the clear-top, decorated LIGHTSCAPES hospitality tent, visitors can enjoy spring-themed sweets including organic sorbet from Blue Pig of Croton and homemade candy and baked goods (plus savories!) from Geordane's of Irvington.Photo © Bryan Haeffele
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