Artist Ricky Boscarino's home, called Luna Parc, is in Sussex County, New Jersey, where he's transformed an old hunting cabin on a five-acre wooded lot into a personal theme park. Named for an amusement park Ricky visited when he lived in Italy, the house itself didn't require any structural repair, but it did need cosmetic attention. Ricky, a ceramist, potter, jewelry maker and artist, got to work. Today moon symbols abound, and the mailbox and entrance gate are a colorful segue to what's inside. He calls it a recycled house. Bottle caps cover the front door, a design that one day will spread over the front of the house. His sculpture garden features creations made with recycled and donated materials. There are bowling balls stuck in iron rods, and one piece, called "The Fusion Flower," stands 11 feet tall and is made of concrete and rebar. One sculpture, called "The Mirror Children," is covered with pieces of broken mirror and Christmas lights; another is constructed with glass insulators from old telephone poles. Inside, we visit the Zen room, also known as the Pillow Room. Here Ricky displays some of his collected objects--perfume bottles, a piece of the Berlin Wall, shells and insects. A model train weaves in and out of this room. Ricky laid the tracks throughout the house, through walls and ceilings. A collection of stringed instruments hangs over the dining room table, and 100 salt and pepper shakers (merely a third of his collection) fill the shelves. In the bedroom we find stars painted on the ceiling and a miniature flamingo collection, and across the hall is the house's only source of heat, an old iron stove. A jackalope is mounted on the wall, and commissioned portraits of Luna Parc decorate the room. In the bathroom, tile mosaics inspired by Klint and Vasser cover the walls, and a shower without doors or curtains is prominently featured.
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