The Urban Pantheist

Top road, Pearl's ride.




Perhaps you remember my post about the Dedham rabbits?



Some assface broke the ear of off Bengal, so it was taken away to be repaired. I finally got my chance to see it when it visited the Dedham Farmers Market this week. Also I bought a couple raffle tickets, so there's a very very slim chance that this rabbit will end up in my yard.

Forest Hills Cemetery in Boston is an active and historic burying ground, and also a sculpture park. These tiny cement houses were new to us, but I bet they've been there for a while. The sculptures used to have plaques identifying them and their artists, but they seem to be gone.

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Much of December 30th was spent in the car.

( but no more of these pictures are from there )

We woke up and looked around--nice enough beach, kinda built up though. Ours was the little pink hotel on the far left.
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Andy consults the map to get us from Portland to Astoria.
( let's see Portland and Astoria! )

Check it out!

In short, an artist has created an installation of a crowd of life-sized human sculptures from cement designed to be attractive to corals, in the Caribbean off the coast of Cancun, Mexico. The intent (beyond the artistic message) is to draw divers away from natural coral reefs, create an artificial refuge for wildlife, and to put a bit of culture in a place primarily thought of in the context of wet t-shirt contests.

The installation will change over time as marine organisms colonize it. Eventually I imagine it will be completely unrecognizable, until archaeologists find it again.

Someone's acorn art in the Riverway.

( More Riverway--the sky got pretty )

This was an art installation (I HOPE) in downtown St. Helier, Jersey.

We walked past yet more intriguing public art down to the Quay.

( down to the quay )

Is there a list of Andy Goldsworthy's "permanent" works (in Britain)? I fully intend to see his Storm King Wall (a short drive away in western New York), but it occurs to me that there may be some pieces in England or Wales that he's done and haven't melted or eroded or washed away yet. This would qualify as something I would be very excited to travel to see--the Spiral Jetty (not by Goldsworthy but an amazing piece of environmental art) was major highlight of my trip two years ago, so if there was something on our trajectory this time it would be great to try to see it.

If I'd thought of this a couple weeks ago I wouldn't ask, I'd just google a path to what I wanted. Too late to be clever! Must rely on hive mind!

Anyone?

EDITED TO ADD: I'd love to see any major public art or environmental art exhibit over there, not just Goldsworthy.