New Activity: Exploring Sculptures Around Town

We’ve been to many art exhibits since we started our ABC Life but not many, if any, were sculpture exhibits. This month we decided to change that. We started with the Art Centre of Plano which was having a Texas Sculpts exhibit. There were several pieces we found interesting, such as the large and colorful piece below which appealed to Barbara and the interesting, pointed hand with tiny little people walking on top of and in the direction of the finger, which we both liked. If you looked carefully, you could see a tiny figure that had fallen off and the title of the piece by Norman Kary was Follow the Leader.

Our positive feelings did not extend to the pieces like the blue pig and the cast iron Hostess Cupcakes which were selling for $200 each!

But what impressed us most were the descriptions written by the artists. We could certainly understand them saying something like Luke Sides who sculpted the pig said, “My work attempts to make a statement about sculpture by approaching craft…..in a new way.” But we quite wanted to barf when someone gets so pretentious as to say, “My aim is to serve as a conduit for collective and individual self-awareness, from which healing and true change in the community can spread like a ripple effect”. Really? From a heart-shaped stone with washers and bullets in it? But we guess that’s what makes the world go ‘round.

DID YOU KNOW that there are more words in the English language that begin with “s” than any other letter? So just as the month ends and we have no more available time to do more “S” activities, so too did the time run out to go to the Nasher Sculpture Center to view more sculptures. Ah well, it’s a good problem to have!