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Monday, August 31, 2020

Storm King Monuments

 

STORM KING ART CENTER:  https://stormking.org/about/

Displays sculpture in the landscape.

A good place to feel expansiveness and explore monumentality.

New Yorker article, 'Returning to Storm King:'   https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/08/31/returning-to-storm-king










"River Light," above, by Kiki Smith (2019).  The flags have white patterns that could be images of reflection in water or a map of the universe.





Goldsworthy Wall: Stones - Trees

 This Andy Goldsworthy wall at Storm King Art Center is 2,778 feet long and used 1,579 tons of fieldstone.

Andy Goldsworthy, "Storm King Wall (1997-1998).                      https://stormking.org/artist/andy-goldsworthy/

It takes the longest sinuous path possible on the edge of a regenerating woodland, goes through a pond and then turns into a straight line through a field, ending up at a highway. It has a lot to say about inclusion and exclusion, creating relationships and beauty.  Oh, and change and death.






















Goldsworthy Wall: Stones - Boulders

 Andy Goldsworthy, "Five Men, Seventeen Days, Fifteen Boulders, One Wall" (2010)    

This later wall follows the sinuous example of the earlier 1997/1998 wall, but this time with local stones and boulders (instead of trees).  It also  manages to evoke relationships rather than exclusion.         https://collections.stormking.org/Detail/objects/106














Artangelis August 2020

 An old hunting camp on the northwest side of the Adirondacks near Harrisville, NY.















Oswegatchie

 

The Oswegatchie River has a complicated drainage system in northwestern New York State.  It basically drains the west side of the Adirondacks northwest into the Saint Lawrence River.

A few pictures of the Middle  Branch southeast of Harrisville New York.

https://naturalatlas.com/rivers/middle-branch-oswegatchie-980339














An Old Friend

 

















Adirondack Waters

 Like many of my pictures, these do not highlight people.

It is just easier, especially in the age of Coronavirus, to not intrude on the privacy of others.

Also, people tend to so often grab the spotlight; it can be a visual exercise to look outside the frame of faces.














Kids on Rocks

 

















It is hard to get children away from rocks.  Soon, they run off to explore the stairs.  It seems that play can happen with sturdy, simple, natural materials.








Chestnut Hill Friends Meeting in Chestnut Hill, PA

Friday, July 31, 2020

Post Monument, What?

Below are four images from Monument Avenue in Richmond after the confederate statues were removed.  There is a lot of graffiti and empty pedestals.
Washington Post article:  here
















One antidote is the statue by Kehinde Wiley of  a young Black man on heroic horseback, in front of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.



Black Lives Matter and Coronavirus are urgent challenges in spring and summer of 2020, along with the economic effects of both.
John Lewis was a politician of virtue and conscience.  His last writing is inspirational:
"Together, You can Redeem the Soul of Our Nation."

The following posts here reflect a search for beauty, meaning and transcendence in the midst of fear and doubt.  The places for searching are, roughly, gardens, parks, home garden projects and plants, and places of worship (quaker, episcopal, and ancient Egypt).
As you go down this page, click on 'Older Posts' at the bottom on the right to see more.

Chanticleer, a Pleasure Garden

Chanticleer is a good place to start, seeking delight, respite, humor and beauty.