Sprinkle Me With Stardust.

I spent the day yesterday in Tuscany, Italy at Niki De St. Phalle’s “Tarot Garden”. Some of you might remember the article we did about Niki way back in issue three? There were photos of this place in that article, but they could not do justice to how incredible it actually is!!

Niki spent almost 20 years painstakingly building the garden. It consists of 12 individual structures, each one relating to one card of the Tarot. The amount of work put into this thing is totally mind-blowing.

The entire garden is set on top of a mountain that overlooks the Mediterranean Sea. You climb through trees and discover mysterious buildings in the clearings.

Her classic “MAMA” sculptures are everywhere!


Thousands of tiny tiles, ceramic sculptures, wood, metal and pieces of broken mirror come together to make this magic psychedelic garden by the sea.





The photos below are of the room where she lived. It is inside one of the sculptures.

The entire “blob-like” space is made of tiny pieces of broken mirror that keep on reflecting into each other into infinity.

The Elrod/Rose contingent was feeling it in a major way!