Art Walk Part 1

    Hi everyone. It's the end of the week already, and Friday the 13th too. I just realized that as I wrote this. Be sure you don't walk under any ladders or let a black cat cross your path. (Grin)  😜

   This past Tuesday morning I went on a sculpture walk with 3 friends. The walk was at a place called Alnoba in Kensington, New Hampshire which is in the southeastern part of  my state not far from the Massachusetts border. Alnoba is on private property, and it is also a private business where you can book retreats and weddings, etc. However, they do offer art walks because they have quite a sculpture park on the property too. We had signed up for an artist lead art walk.  It started at 9 AM, and since I had almost a 90 minute drive (with morning traffic) to get there, I had to leave the house pretty early.

    The art walk was for 3 hours and actually ran a little bit longer. We didn't even get to see everything because the park is about 400 acres of land. However, I really enjoyed it, and I'd like to go back sometime on a different artist lead walk.

     Here's some of the art we saw. I have some faces so I'm linking up to Nicole's Friday Face Off.  I'm also linking up to Gillena's  Friday Lunch Break also. 

Let me start with this statue, which was one of my favorites.  It's called Colossal Fragment by Lionel Smit.

Not only was  the front view cool, but so was the back. It doesn't even look like the same sculpture, does it?

And if I stepped to the side and took photos, they were even different. And fascinating.

The artist who took us for a walk was Joseph Gray. His medium was stone. On the property he had several eagle benches.

He sees eagles in  certain flat stones, and if you look carefully you can see the head and tall feathers.

Joseph Gray  also did this large statue which I also really liked.

Can you see the Japanese tea house on the hill in the background?

I enjoyed hearing the artists' stories about how he created his art. This statue was originally one piece, but to get it into  its present location it had to be cut into 3 pieces. 

And here's a couple of pieces that don't have faces created by other sculptors.

Indeterminate Line by Bernar Venet

This blue piece in the woods  was harder to reach so we never walked any closer. Can you see it among the trees? 

Blue Gilead by Murray Dewart

Let me end this post with this HUGE fire pit that they burn during the retreats. It gets such a large fire and gets so hot you can see the granite stones on the side have even cracked and split off chunks.

I think it in itself is a work of art.

That's all for today's post. I'll have more next week. 

Have a great weekend and week ahead.