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Boston Globe Article

http://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/2017/09/21/the-curious-world-julian-janowitz/8bmMNcrz21cWeirwe124eO/story.html#comments The curious world of Julian Janowitz By Ethan Gilsdorf GLOBE CORRESPONDENT SEPTEMBER 22, 2017 SHUTESBURY — From the second-floor bedroom of his house, Julian Janowitz can survey his kingdom. There is a pond, two dams, fields, the remnants of an old sawmill, meadows, and swaths of woods. “Moose come to the front door. A bear climbs up on the deck,” says Janowitz. “Forty-one years in paradise. It’s really such a sustaining bliss to be here.” Since the mid-1970s, Janowitz, a psychiatrist by training who helped found the mental health center at UMass-Amherst, has lived here, on 154 acres in rural Shutesbury. He has gradually shaped this landscape, what he calls “the Bower,” by “constructing stuff”: creating sculptures, many on a massive scale, and scattering them like a leprechaun might hide gold in his magical realm. “The woods are filled with things that I