More from Storm King #3

Hi everyone. Happy Friday!

I thought today I would finish the work week with some more photos from Storm King, the sculpture garden I visited last week in New York. I've only posted  some  of the  photos I took  on my blog this week, but I think you can get a feel for the place. I'll show you more at a later time, but next week I will move onto the other art garden we visited or perhaps even something else.

I should warn you this is a photo heavy post.

This tall piece is eye catching  in the field of wildflowers.

In this next photo you can see my friend walking under it, just to give you some scale.

What I like about this next exhibit is that it transform the landscape into a different natural landscape. The wavefield definitely looked better from above, standing on a hill behind it and looking down into it.

Can you see the waves of grass ?

When you got down on eye level, you could still see the waves but they were not so pronounced nor as dramatic.

Wednesday I showed you the back view of this next statue as we walked out of the wooded area, and the stone wall ended. Here's the front view of that statue.

This statue was different from most of the others as it is very detailed.

This piece is called the 3 Legged Buddha. I did find this write up on the internet about it. I now understand why it has 3 legs and half a head on the ground.

“Three-Legged Buddha” is a moving and dramatic sight, all the more so when one understands the source of Zhang’s creation. Zhang set about to make these sculptures after a visit to Tibet in which he found fragments of religious sculptures, which had been destroyed during the Cultural Revolution, for sale in a Tibetan market. Deeply moved by the sight of these fragments, Zhang started to collect them as relics, with an intention to transform them in some way to art, according to Art Knowledge News. (http://www.mindfulwalker.com/beyond-gotham/encountering-the-three-legged-buddha)

That's my friend Jo peeking out from behind the nose.

Onto some more shape, patina and texture.

And shape and color in this case of this zigzag.

I'm not sure of the meaning behind these spheres, but I'd love a couple of the smaller ones in my gardens.

This next photo is not art in the park, but this helicopter flew overhead, and  it was very loud. I thought it was a sharp contrast to the quiet of nature in the sculpture garden. It is my own photo art for the day.

And finally, a little more sculpture art.

And a close up below.

My bent must be towards traditional art because I loved these columns. We were told they were rescued from a salvage yard.

This man resting on the wall was another favorite. Can you see him?

And I'll finish up with this interesting indoor exhibit at the main house on the property. I can't believe I forgot to take photos of the house. It was built in the 1920's as a NY lawyer's weekend home, and the shell was beautiful brick and stone. Inside there was rich wood paneling, at least in the main area, the only place we were allowed. 

They did have one  exhibit in the house with color, paper and lights which I enjoyed. I don't think I photographed it very well, to get the full effect.

Hope you enjoyed this little visit to Storm King Art Center from my photos. 

And of course, thanks  so much for visiting.

 

In Honor of the Tokyo Olympics (and Storm King)

 Hi everyone. 

I'm here today with a page inspired by some Japanese typed text for Neet's challenge at Art Journal Journey. In case you aren't aware of this month's challenge, Neet's theme is type. 

Even though I made this page before the Olympics began and not even thinking about these games, I thought it was good timing to share it now, before the games are over.

I started my page with some red paint and a chrysanthemum mask. Before removing the mask, I also gave my page a spray with a couple of shades of red inks.

I  used the top of bottle and some green paint to make the circles over my red background. I love the organic forms each "circle" ended up with. After stamping with the paint, I ripped a page out of a reading book I brought home from Japan back in 2018 and used some matte media to attach it.  (I bought the book for art uses like this one, as I don't read Japanese.) Some of the red spray inks absorbed into the book page which helped this piece blend into the background. 

Since I was using typed Japanese text, I was curious how the Japanese typewriter was set up. Since the letters are different in Japanese from how they look in English and other Roman letter languages, I wondered if the typewriters were different  Here's a  few photos I found online of some different types of typewriters.

These are quite vintage, and I'm not exactly sure how they would work.

 This next one isn't all so different from the more familiar modern versions that you can find set up in different languages.

And  I also looked on line for Japanese computer keyboards. I found most keyboards that look like this.

I still wonder if the typewriters and keyboards type horizontally across the page or if they type vertically since that is how Japanese writing is. 

OK, back to my journal page.

Then it was time to add the finishing details to my journal page. I stamped a couple of Asian words, added the chipboard geisha, and also dug out a leaf I had picked up off the ground and embossed last autumn. The page still needed something so I added this black foam washer ring. Finally with a thin red marker I outlined my page with that wiggly line, which is not a very precise Japanese addition at all.  But it is me. Smile.

And since I snapped so many photos on my visit to Storm King last week, here's a few more photos. 

I really like this piece in the next picture. I don't know what the artist wanted it to be, but the balance  effect is very cool. Plus it has  great patina. 

These 2 people just happened to be standing there.

This photo (above) is how far I was from the actual sculpture when I took the photo. In the close up I used my zoom on my lens. 

These pieces were towards the end of our walking, and  by this point we were tired so we didn't walk up the hill to the red sculpture on the top.  This hill was a lot taller and steeper than this photo makes it look. (Or at least it seemed that way.)

Sometimes I think big sculptures are better from afar anyhow.

This painted mermaid swimming was along the side of a sailboat body.  The sign said this was a work in progress. I like the painting but not sure what it will become.

These next photos are of another red sculpture. I had decided to view the art for how it looked in the environment, never mind finding meaning. You could have put your phone over a bar code by the sign (giving the artist's name and date of creation) to read more, but there was so much to see we didn't do that.

To me, I see an abstract spider in this red piece below,  but I doubt that's what it is.

I actually like this photo of the 3 balls and the rusty designs nature has created on them.

And for those of you who like a little nature, I'll finish off my post with  some more meadow views from Storm King.

Hope your day is going well.