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A panoramic shot of some tubular art, called Adonai, which is one of the Hebrew words for god, so...(more)
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A panoramic shot of some tubular art, called Adonai, which is one of the Hebrew words for god, so...(more)
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The woods were lovely, though not that dark and not that deep. A "making of" shot of Antonia...(more)
Technically this doesn't relate to the art, but it turns out that we arrived in the middle of the emergence of cicadas. About 3 weeks earlier, they had come up out of the ground, after 17-years, and they had been partying non-stop since then. It was literally a party-till-you-drop sort of thing. During the 6 hours while we were there, there was a constant background noise from the cicadas. This did not sound like the buzzing, rattling noise that I'm used to hearing, and that dramatically tapers off after a minute. This sounded like a Star Trek phaser, with a wavering sound. In some areas it was lounder, and some areas it was quieter, but it was there the whole damn time.
The cicadas were also everywhere. Looking around, we'd find a few might have hitched a ride on our pants or shoulder. Or they'd fly by and land. They look cool, but they are not in any way graceful when they land, more often then not flopping over on their back, and then wiggling in an "oh shit, I bloew that one" kind of way, occasionally buzzing with a "Hey, a little help here! Anyone? Anyone?" tone.
There were many small holes in the ground from where they emerged. They molt one final time, and many empty casings were on the ground as well as still on the sides of trees. There were some double-ended cicadas who probably simply couldn't "get a room" since every insect motel was booked. And then there were lots and lots and lots of dead ones on the ground and some of the areas smelled a bit nasty from all the dead bugs. Using a primative counting system, I'd say there were "many" cicadas, possibly even many manys.
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It actually took us a while to figure out that this was just an empty shell, as opposed to some...(more)
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This piece is called Endless Column. Kind of a misnomer, though I imagine it might have felt that...(more)
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A tall panoramic shot of it. Hint: The one artifact of the stitching I've noticed is at the first...(more)
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Antonia makes shadow art with the Iliad. Kind of looks like part of the biohazard symbol. I...(more)
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A panoramic shot of Iliad, with a Cornell classics professor admiring it (it wasn't planned that...(more)
There were a bunch of smaller works at the top of the hill to the north that overlooked the whole site. We did not go inside the indoor museum. Antonia took a nice shot of Rob pointing out to me a weakness in the defenses, as we overlook the area and make our plan of attack.
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I thought this was an odd looking drain on the musuem house, but it happens to be another art. So...(more)
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Aphprodite. Apparently the curators had felt it was a bit racy so this year they put it in an area...(more)
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Rob, Antonia, and I pose for a group art picture. A doctored version of the picture where I...(more)
The Mirror Fence is a pretty nifty thing. Sitting near the boundary between a wooded area and a grassy hillside, the pickets reflect the scene behind the viewer, while the empty spaces between and above the pickets allow the viewer to see the contrasting landscape on the other side of the fence. We had to stop, sit, and take some pictures here.
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I was going to take a picture of Antonia taking her picture, but when I turned to look she was...(more)
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I discovered the top of the fence was mirrored too, so this is me looking down on it from above. ...(more)
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This work was just beyond the fence. The little Buddhas tip over just as the TVs they watch tip. ...(more)
One of the large installations is called Three Legged Buddha. We sought enlightenment, as well as re-enacting the opening of Monty Python's Flying Circus. Antonia took a picture of me standing next to the head, and then being silly (picking both our noses). She commented that now she has pictures that she could use against me, if the need ever arose. I think she'd probably have to get in line...
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Two of the legs are supported by "small" poles, about the size of a person, while the third stands...(more)
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She actually looked a bit too happy in the other shots, but I figured I'd keep the bunch. I...(more)
Technically, it's called Five Men, Seventeen Days, Fifteen Boulders, One Wall. But this was the initial motivation to go here. The wall is quite windy and sinuous, snaking around trees. I wonder if the stone masons started to get annoyed at Goldworthy for taking the long way. It also goes down into a pond and then emerges on the far side, then continues up a hill and ends at the edge of the Storm King property by Interstate 87.
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Antonia felt that the view from above was a good position, but she couldn't get high enough to...(more)
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A shot of Rob taking a picture from the wall. The stones have nice detail but the background was...(more)
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A close-up of the wall. I decided to try it as a sepia-toned black and white shot...(more)
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I found a gap in the wall and stood in the middle of it. Rob and Antonia took my picture, and so I...(more)
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A panoramic shot of the pond from the end of it. Three groups of geese swam out as we walked to...(more)
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The place where we were where the wall entered the water. The water was very still...(more)
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There is a gap in the wall as it crosses a road in the park. Antonia's shooting a picture across...(more)
After the wall, we headed back, seeing a few more units of art on the south side of Storm King.
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A panoramic shot of the Storm King Wavefield. There was a sign saying that people were not...(more)
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With the exception of Goldsworthy, I had not heard of any of the artists (which isn't saying much)....(more)
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The pond (different than the one with the wall) had a lot of pond scum, but was still kind of...(more)
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We saw these 3 standing squares ("Untitled", grrr...) from above, by the museum. We noticed the...(more)
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