Public art, just the refreshment we need as we move through our
cluttered lives. Meandering through the beautiful and tranquil Poltesco Valley in Cornwall last
month (lucky me) on our way to the coastal footpath, we spotted this small bench with beautiful subtle fish carved along its edge. We noticed it was dedicated to someone who must have loved the walk too so we sat down and thought of him and what he might have been like.
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| Mr Pankhurst's bench |
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| Watchful owls |
Then later that day, strolling down to Kennack Sands, I saw these figures peeking out through a garden hedge...a creative use of tree stumps.
It's one thing to find objets in the countryside but what about coming across them in a city…
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This time there's a surprize... Empty for 150 years, the fourth plinth (the north/west one) surrounding Nelson’s column has been waiting for an historical figure to join the other three. Since early 2000, the space has been offered to contemporary artists for a temporary display of their work. The current piece is a giant electric blue cockerel by Katharina Fritsch, an interesting companion for the conventional sculptured gentlemen already in place.
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| How does he do that? |
Then we turned a
corner and saw this dude...
and several other metallically clad
figures who stayed very still, then startled us
with a tiny twitchfigures who stayed very still, then startled us
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| Streetscape |
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| Lighting fixture inside |
The snazziest new shop in London, opened in March in Covent Garden is Lululemon…with features designed, produced and shipped over by Brothers Dressler, the Toronto studio well known for their unique ways of re-purposing wood and creating beautiful spaces
You don't have to go to London to see a creation of Dressler’s... in the newest section of Yorkdale, the
Thanks to Karen Kenny and Norm Nicholls for the photos
