"Last Sunday, volunteers for the Wake County chapter of the National Alliance for Mental Illness placed hundreds of 45-inch-high irises with 14-inch blooms on a half-acre of the grounds of Rex Hospital at the corner of Blue Ridge Road and Lake Boone Trail in Raleigh.

The landscape-art installation is a re-creation of Vincent Van Gogh's Irises, painted while the artist was in a mental institution, a year before his death in 1890...."

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