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Starting to post the travelogue has spurred a new flurry of activity around it: creating a photo album template, starting to cull the thousands of pictures I brought back, editing the original document and starting to write more -- the original is less than half finished. It has also brought back very vivid memories and emotions, and prompted some musings and puzzles. I caught the post on Stonehenge out of the corner of my eye, and started wondering again about the construction and purpose of that ancient stone structure. The various theories range from learned to crackpot, as do the sources (from learned to crackpot that is, although the theory and source do not always match up in a predictable fashion in my opinion). My mind wandering off on a tangent as usual, I started wondering what civilizations to follow would make of some of our structures. What huge, now extinct insects might they speculate had wandered the earth in ages past, that were so feared or revered that a structure might have been built in its honor? Or what ancient ritual would they try to reconstruct to match the purpose of the structure to some astronomical or meteorological event? This one is in Chicago, photographed on a grey day in May of 2003 as we killed time before the Empire Builder took us west, to a new job and a new life. |
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The whole photo would be pretty fascinating to an archeologist, really. The big red sculpture, the offices piled with stuff, and the police van. We work, eat lunch around giant abstractions, and haul people away. Ah, the 21st century...
Posted by Anne | January 16, 2005 10:11 AM
Posted on January 16, 2005 10:11
Could that tbe the Picasso outside the Hon. Richard J. Daley Center? No, I don't think so; this looks more like a Calder. I'm stumped ...
Posted by Chrysalis | January 16, 2005 11:54 AM
Posted on January 16, 2005 11:54
It's a Calder, called Flamingo
. For me it would be closer to Praying Mantiss.
Anne, I had been tossing around the idea for a while. I decided that archeologists would be able to recognize the steel girders as former high-rise buildings, places where people congregated to work or live or play, but that they would be bemused by the significance of public art. They would seem, by their placement, to be objects conveniently placed for communal use, be it practical, recreational or religious.
How do you describe Art to someone who has never heard of it? Or worse, someone who would think that YOU had never heard of it?
Not that I am seriously suggesting that Stonehenge is a work of public art, but then again, why not?
Posted by Sivani | January 19, 2005 9:36 PM
Posted on January 19, 2005 21:36