Wednesday, November 29, 2006

991 Sculpture Park Photos, 1 of 3

Photos from last Friday's visit to Grounds for Sculpture, NJ, courtesy of Hercules.

I'm unsure what the rules are for posting photos of artwork without attribution, but all of these pieces are at GFS, so consider it an advertisement for them. Go see them in 3-D.

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Daughter gets all upset when I put photos of living people in here, so I had to behead Hercules. Imagine him properly horrified.

This lady was reclining on a couch in the center of a bamboo grove. Hercules fell in love with her.

The path through here was bordered by thick hedges, except for this strategically placed window.

Fiber art inside one of the buildings. Is it supposed to remind me of a ship? A ship to the sun?

This was one of my favorite installations. Unfortunately, there is no picture of the group as it was meant to be seen. Hercules stuck the camera inside one of the pieces to take this picture. There was also a shot without the flash, which I actually liked better. It was five or so "structures", about 10 or 12 feet tall. They were vaguely humanoid, copper I think, tattered, and in a grove that was rather dark. There was a feeling of despair about them, and yet they stood tall, firm, and steadfast.

This installation was inside a building. The beasties are breaking out of the furniture. Notice the squirrel on top of the plaque on the wall? Well, the coyotes on the couch, a fox on the chair, and a guinea pig made of the carpet were similarly rising out of body-pattern cuts out of the furniture. I thought the artist had missed a bet - he/she should have had deer-body-shaped cuts in the wall paneling for the deer to come out of. It was cute, but I'm not sure what it was "saying".

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