All Hands

We passed this sculpture several times on our way to and back from the hotel but I was never able to find any placard or other source of information on it.

.. update. Thanks to eagle-eyed and dedicated blog-follower Lois A Jay, I can now link to more information on the background of this sculpture, All Hands.

Blackberries

Blackberries grow wild aplenty in and around Farnham Park. in mid-August we (really, my wife) frequently picked them on our walks and added them to our morning yogurts with my homemade granola.

The mask is by Gillian Wearing (you see what I did there?). You can see the mask on the mask face, the shadow of the mask behind, and the image of the sculpture on the phone of the viewer in front. It’s all very meta.

Backhander

Subway Embrace

Table, Shadow

from the Museum web site:

Table,1934

Costa Achillopoulo

Little is known about the designer of this table, which is both a functional piece of furniture and a fantastical Surrealist sculpture. The glass tabletop rests improbably atop small balls balanced on the tips of three delicately tapering fingers, generating a sensation of tension and unease. Disembodied hands and gloves are recurrent motifs in Surrealist art, with the left hand, in particular, symbolizing the irrational. The cloudlike element from which the hand emerges also suggests a transition from the conscious to the subconscious world.

OTOH

Shot from the hip without meaning to capture my wife’s hand. Nothing is quite in focus here (except, perhaps, the “86” on the wall) but I like the questioning stance of the open hand in the foreground.