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Wednesday 22 April 2009

Whatever you want it to be.....

So..... is the photo above:

a) seed bed covered to protect from hens, cats and other animals that enjoy rummaging through newly dug earth.
OR
b) “The Stone Square of Sandside” .... an art installation representing the opaqueness of life. The breeze up lifting the fabric revealing a tantalising glimpse of the soil underneath representing the flashes of insight one has, as one gropes through the web of existence. The stones represent anchors which bind us to the present and frustrate our attempts to know what is on "the other side", what is in the future. The centre stone is deliberately off centre, just as life can sometimes be a little left of centre. The stones echo the aeons, the millennia which have shaped them. The round pebbles from the beach representing the buffeting of the tides which also shape our lives, our very being.......


And is this :

a) a nice warm space for Button to appreciate the landscape.
OR
b) The addition to the original artwork adding yet another dimension, linking the earth with the living and breathing inhabitants of the land and illustrating the temporary nature of inhabitaiton of the landscape - since Button will move onto more interesting things soon. (Thanks to LM for this additional interpretation).

And this is:

A sunset, an explosion of colour before the light dies. Today is Earth Day - be kind to our planet, she's the only one we've got (to misquote a fridge magnet....)

9 comments:

  1. Sian, you have definitely missed your calling. You should have been an art critic. So while I have a pretty good idea what the photo is, I'm going to go with "It's an art installation". [g]

    Recently there was a bit in our paper with similar art criticism of the work of the writer's 3 y/o son. It was a killer article, but yours is better.

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  2. Well, I've always been "B" type person - especially being slightly off-center to the left.

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  3. Love it, love it! And I can't resist being a 'B' person.

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  4. Pat - I actually love some of the installations in our local gallery, but several of them make me go "Huh?". And sometimes I just think it's a bit of a con.

    Mary Z - Me too!

    Paula - some days are "a" days and some days are "b" days! But I find B days more fun! LOL!

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  5. Sian, I also enjoy a lot of modern "art installations". Usually I don't understand them and rely on whatever they tell me they mean. I enjoy criticism of them a bit less, but sometimes it's funny. Yours is great.

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  6. SIAN, Pink Fir Apple is a main crop salad potato, delicious (and knobbly) so don`t expect to crop it early!!!!!
    love walrus

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  7. Walrus 21 - thanks for letting me know that! Fortunately I have friends nearby who are ensuring I don't mistreat my veggies through ignorance. I hadn't found much info on Pink Fir Apple potatoes and just assumed "salads = summer" so they would be "early" potatoes! I have lots to learn - but that's one thing I love about gardening - the experimentation!

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  8. Pat - I like the multiplicity of meanings in modern art. I'm interested in how the artist conceptualises it, but I like being able to add my own interpretation or meaning to it. sometimes I just dont "get it" and am bemused by thousands of pounds or dollars being paid for a line of bricks for example. But I do like the way contemporary art challenges my perceptions even if at times I think it's rubbish or the artist having a laugh at the "glitter-arty" types expense [g]

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  9. I also think some modern art has to be a put-on. Sometimes I think it comforts me because while I don't consider myself "artistic" at all, I look at some of these things and think, "Heck, I could do that".

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