FROM THE DESERT TO THE RAINFOREST

EXHIBITION SUMMARY

FROM THE DESERT TO THE RAINFOREST

A Living Sculptural Garden

Welcome to a living sculptural garden where two of Earth’s most contrasting environments meet.

From the Desert to the Rainforest brings together glass, light, plants, color, and texture in an immersive landscape that moves from the restrained forms of the desert to the lush abundance of the rainforest.

Although these environments seem worlds apart, they share unexpected similarities: organic forms, shifting textures, intense color, movement, and the constant transformation of light.

The glass sculptures draw inspiration from both landscapes. Their translucent surfaces capture and redirect light, allowing color, reflection, and shadow to become part of the surrounding environment. The sculptures are not simply placed within the garden. They become part of it.

This is not a recreation of either landscape. It is an imagined one.

As you move through the garden, forms and textures begin to echo one another. A shape reminiscent of a desert cactus may suggest a tropical leaf. Weathered earth may resemble the surface of a rainforest plant. Colors shift and overlap, revealing connections between environments that initially appear completely opposite.

The result is a landscape where art and nature become inseparable.

AN EVOLVING GARDEN

But this garden is not meant to remain exactly as you see it today.

The sculptures within From the Desert to the Rainforest are available individually, while the complete garden may also be acquired as a single immersive installation.

Collectors may:

Acquire the Complete Garden
Acquire the installation as a whole and bring the garden into a new space.

Acquire an Individual Sculpture
Select a sculpture from the garden to become part of your own collection.

Create Your Own Garden
Work with Winkel Gallery to create a custom configuration using sculptures from the exhibition.

As sculptures find new homes, new works will emerge within the garden. One sculpture may disappear from the landscape, only for another to take its place.

The landscape remains. The garden continues to grow.

EXPLORE THE SCULPTURES

Sculptures Currently in the Garden

Justin Winkel: Window into the Forest
$1,200.00

Glass sculpture with metal base

Glass size: 8 × 25in

Total size with base: 5 × 10 × 26in

Perfect for a table or pedestal.

We do not recommend putting it in front of direct sunlight. Indirect sunlight is fine.

You may purchase online and select gallery pick up on shipping.

Shipping cost calculated at checkout

Justin Winkel: Above the Rainforest
$3,200.00

Glass Sculpture & Steel Base

14in x 56in

You may purchase this piece online & pick up in gallery.

Most pieces ship via UPS.

Shipping cost will be calculated at checkout 

Justin Winkel: Colors of the Rainforest
$2,400.00

Glass sculpture and steel stand

10in x 48in 

Durable tempered glass and steel stand

May be purchased online and pick up in gallery

Most pieces ship UPS

Justin Winkel: Desert Sunrise
$1,800.00

Glass sculpture with metal base

Glass size: 7 × 36in

Total size with base: 5 × 9 × 37in

Perfect for a table, pedestal or even a floor sculpture.

We do not recommend putting it in front of direct sunlight. Indirect sunlight is fine.

You may purchase online and select gallery pick up on shipping.

Shipping cost calculated at checkout

Justin Winkel: Afternoon Sun
$1,400.00

Suspended Glass sculpture with metal stand

Glass size: 8 × 25in

Total size with base: 5 × 10 × 26in

This sculpture comes with a pre-drilled hole that allows this sculpture to suspend from the ceiling. It also comes with a metal stand as shown in photos.

Perfect for a window sill, table top or pedestal.

We do not recommend putting it in front of direct sunlight. Indirect sunlight is fine.

You may purchase online and select gallery pick up on shipping.

Shipping cost calculated at checkout

Justin Winkel: Desert Sky
$3,600.00

Glass sculpture with metal base

Glass size: 10 × 60in

Total size with base: 8 × 13 × 60in

We do not recommend putting it in front of direct sunlight. Indirect sunlight is fine.

You may purchase online and select gallery pick up on shipping.

Shipping cost calculated at checkout

Justin Winkel: Night Sky
$1,600.00

Suspended Glass sculpture with metal stand

Glass size: 7 × 24in

Total size with base: 5 × 10 × 26in

This sculpture comes with a pre-drilled hole that allows this sculpture to suspend from the ceiling. It also comes with a metal stand as shown in photos.

Perfect for a window sill, table top or pedestal.

We do not recommend putting it in front of direct sunlight. Indirect sunlight is fine.

You may purchase online and select gallery pick up on shipping.

Shipping cost calculated at checkout

FOLLOW THE LIGHT

From the Desert to the Rainforest is not a static exhibition.

As works leave the garden and new sculptures emerge, the relationships between glass, plants, light, color, and space continue to change.

Every configuration tells a different story.

Step inside. Explore. Follow the light.

Welcome to the garden.

COLLECT THE GARDEN

Three Ways to Experience the Garden

Acquire the Complete Installation
Take home From the Desert to the Rainforest as a complete living sculptural garden.

Collect an Individual Sculpture
Select a sculpture from the garden to make part of your own collection. As works find new homes, new sculptures will emerge within the garden.

Create Your Own Garden
Commission a custom configuration of sculptures, plants, and landscape elements created specifically for your space.