I continue with samples of images I rejected from my Urban Exoticism contest submission.
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Urban Exoticism
Tag: statue
Home Sense
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.
Museum of Cardiff
We walked into the city centre and gawked like tourists (see below).
Somebody didn’t get the memo
Salisbury Cathedral
After our 6½-mile walk, we had lunch at a pub and proceeded through the Harnham Water Meadows (shown in previous posts) to the Salisbury Cathedral. Lots of postcard-type images inside the cathedral, below (click any of the images to see them full-sized – if you’re seeing this on the web, not in email).
Both Sides Now
Pat Walls
Sculptor Pat Walls putting the finishing touches to one of his several sandstone statues (here, the wheelwright) portraying the crafts and trades of Farnham in the Brightwells Yard development in Farnham as it holds out hope of completing. I had a nice chat with him about his practice and he described to me each of the artisans portrayed in the statues.
Love is Blind?
After seeing the powerful Mary Ellen Mark retrospective and Reflection: Japanese Photographers Facing the Cataclysm at the Espace van Gogh, I moved on to see some lenticular images by Mustapha Azerroual and Marjolaine Levy at the Cloître Saint-Trophime and, as is my wont, I photographed the space rather than the exhibit (see below).
Nearsighted Watch Dog
Embellishments
Stare Miasto
We visited the Warsaw Old Town, which appears to have been rebuilt after the war (1950s mostly, I think) chiefly for the tourist trade: very charming and old fashioned, with lots of restaurants and gift shops. I’ll be posting a bunch of touristy snaps over the next few days’ posts. Click on images below to see larger.
Upper Illium?
We walked up to the Upper Hale (one of Farnham’s villages) to see how they’d integrated the dilapidated chapel into the landscaping design of the cemetery (the work in this article has been completed.) Emerging into the Upper Hale we saw this house with its equine wooden sculpture (we didn’t check inside for Greek soldiers).
Cryptography
Antony Gormley sculpture
This mysterious life-size statue of a man contemplating the water held in his cupped hands is the work of the celebrated British sculptor Antony Gormley. Sound II, fashioned from lead out of a plaster cast of the artist’s own body, is in the Cathedral Crypt.
Christmas Week
We visited with family in London on 23rd December and walked through festive streets (Villiers St and Bond St, shown here).
Sculpture of the Artist
There’s more going on here than meets the eye. Below this statue on the plinth is found a plaque reading, “Non Plaudite, Modo Pecuniam Jacite,” which translates from Latin as, “Do not applaud, just throw money,” perhaps a comment on the assumption of the art world into that of commerce so nearby?
I discovered this piece changes in response to the viewer at Atlas Obscura (although I did not witness any change myself).
Margaret Enters the Picture
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The Art Lovers
How we view art today – we photograph it with our phones. Click any picture below to see them larger.
Paris Rain
Our first day and half in Paris were pretty damp, but lovely all the same. Click any of the pictures below to see them bigger.
Fountainbridge Branch
Where we went we say lots of the grand Edinburgh architecture (see below) – even the decrepit premises betrayed the elegance of their former occupants. Click any of the pictures below to see them bigger (if viewing in email or social media you may need to click the post title first to see on the web site).
