Photographs and thoughts on photography and camera collecting
This is the sight that greeted us as we arrived at the Visitor’s Center: Seward Johnson’s take on Édouard Manet‘s famous painting Olympia. It’s called Confrontational Vulnerability and I’s huge!! (12ft x 20ft x 8ft)
Taken with a Fuji X-E3 and Fuji XC 16-50mm f3.5-5.6 OSS II
I recently went to Grounds for Sculpture, about a two-hour drive away in new Jersey. According to its website, Grounds for Sculpture is:
” A MUSEUM, SCULPTURE GARDEN, AND ARBORETUM WHERE ART AND NATURE ARE ALWAYS AT PLAY.
Outdoors, nearly 300 contemporary sculptures are sited across 42 landscaped acres. Indoors, temporary exhibitions from established and emerging artists are featured in six galleries. Engaging and educational programs for all ages are offered year-round, and may include lectures from top minds, hands-on workshops, tours, concerts, and performances.
Grounds For Sculpture was founded by artist and philanthropist Seward Johnson. It opened in 1992 on the former New Jersey State Fairgrounds and was a natural extension of its predecessor, The Johnson Atelier. Hundreds of artists studied and produced work at the Atelier, and Johnson saw the potential of the neighboring bygone fairgrounds as a place where artwork could be sited within the landscape, and visitors could delight in discovering contemporary sculpture.”
The Sculpture above is located by the Center for the Arts. I believe it’s called: “A Turn of the Century“.
Not surprisingly Johnson’s sculptures are quite controversial (See: Art Now and Then: Seward Johnson II)
Taken with a Fuji X-E3 and Fuji XC 16-50mm f3.5-5.6 OSS II
During a recent walk I came across these gigantic skeletons.They’re truly huge, at least twice the height of a normal human being. I would not have been surprised if this was around Hallowe’en, but the picture was taken in May!! I guess they’re so big that it’s hard (maybe impossible) to take them down every year. So there they stand all year round.
Taken with Sony RX100 M3
I had a visitor staying with me a couple of weeks ago. We’d been out all day and were a little tired so we decided to go to a nearby Mexican Restaurant. It was fairly crowded and a particularly loud group of women was making a lot of noise.
We asked if we could relocate to another table and were told that the only available tables were outside. I didn’t even know that they had an outside seating area! Anyway off we went. It turned out that it was quite pleasant, and almost completely empty – just one couple and a couple of these colorful statues.
Taken with an Iphone SE II.
